Telegram Scraping in Python Without an API Key: The Public-Preview Collector That Survives
Most "Telegram scraping in Python" tutorials tell you to install Telethon, register an API ID with your phone number, and log in as a user bot. Fine…
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Recording is the rule: a different architecture for browser data collection
Web scraping has two failure modes, and the industry keeps fixing the wrong one. The first failure is writing the scraper . That got 100x easier: re…
Turning a list of company websites into a contact list with a plain HTTP crawl
Anyone who has done outbound sales or recruiting knows this task. You have a list of company websites and you need the contact info off each one. Op…
The plumbing was a person: giving my G2 scraper a memory and a locked door with MCP connectors
I maintain a G2 Software Reviews Scraper on Apify Store. It has 124 users, mostly product and sales teams who watch what people say about their comp…
Apify pay-per-event billing: four ways I charged users for nothing
Apify pay-per-event billing: four ways I charged users for nothing I run 51 scrapers on Apify behind seven MCP servers. Agents call them as tools ov…
PipeWise: Turning r/Plumbing Into a Content Engine
A plumbing subreddit is a corpus of every question homeowners are too embarrassed to ask a plumber. Thousands of posts, each one a real problem with…
Your Apify Actor can be missing from Store search while looking perfectly healthy
We published an Actor, watched it get no traffic, and spent four days convinced we'd hit a bug. We hadn't. Apify filters Store search results by a q…
AI-Powered Price Tracking for Latin America: Building PreciosML
How We Monitor500K+ Product Prices Across Latin America Every Hour Price monitoring in Latin America sounds simple. Until you try it. Between Falabe…
I Stopped Scraping Business Directories and Built an MCP Server on Official Registry Data
I Stopped Scraping Business Directories and Built an MCP Server on Official Registry Data For a long time I built B2B lead-generation tools the way…
Scraping Ethically: A Practical Guide to Respectful Web Crawling
Scraping Ethically: A Practical Guide to Respectful Web Crawling The single most important thing to understand about web scraping is this: ethical c…
When you actually need a headless browser (and when you're just wasting RAM)
Most of the store-locator scrapers I build never touch a browser. I open the Network tab, find the JSON endpoint the map calls, hit it with fetch ,…
Web Scraping with Python in 2026: Best Libraries and Anti-Bot Strategies
Web Scraping with Python in 2026: Best Libraries and Anti-Bot Strategies Web scraping in 2026 looks very different from 2020. Sites are smarter, ant…
The Hidden Costs of Web Scraping: Evaluating Proxy Uptime and True Pricing Performance
Hey Dev Community! 👋 If you are scaling web scrapers, dynamic pricing monitors, or data pipelines to feed LLMs, you already know the biggest line it…
Beyond Marketing Myths: Proxy Network Performance Benchmarks & Reliability Auditing in Production
Hey Dev Community, If you are running enterprise-scale web scrapers, pricing monitors, or data ingestion pipelines for LLMs, you’ve probably spent s…
Booster Leboncoin: the Manifest V3 Chrome extension that bumps my ads and watches prospects for me
I have seven active ads on Leboncoin (France's Craigslist): IT support, web dev, WordPress hosting, retrogaming, e-waste pickup. All relevant for my…
I spent weeks scraping 50 websites—here's what finally worked
A few months ago, I needed to build a price comparison tool. The data lived across 50 different e‑commerce sites, each with its own layout, anti‑bot…
Why I ditched regex scrapers for an LLM parser (and when you shouldn't)
Last month I needed to scrape product details from 30 different e-commerce sites. Each site used its own HTML structure, class names changed weekly,…
Rate Limits & Anti-Bots in Agentic Scraping
TL;DR Agentic web scraping workflows handle rate limits and anti-bot challenge pages by implementing exponential backoff with jitter, distributing r…
I Built an API That Turns Any Website Into JSON Using Just CSS Selectors
I've written a lot of scrapers. The HTML parsing part is never the interesting part — and it's always the part that takes the longest. You know what…
The Anti-Bot Detection Checklist I Use Before Every Scraping Project
The Anti-Bot Detection Checklist I Use Before Every Scraping Project Every scraping project I take on starts with this checklist. Not because I'm pa…
Scraping Real Estate & Job Data with Python: Zillow, Indeed & More (2026)
The Two Most Valuable Data Sets on the Web Two types of data power some of the most valuable business decisions made every day: Real estate data — p…
Advanced Headless Browser Anti-Bot Techniques: TLS & Canvas
TL;DR Modern bot detection systems identify headless browsers by analyzing TLS handshakes, hardware-accelerated rendering variations, and JavaScript…
I Spent a Weekend Fighting Flaky Scrapers — Here’s What Finally Worked
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Scraping dynamic pages with Python, Playwright and AWS Lambda
If you have ever pointed BeautifulSoup at a modern job board and then wondered why you got only a fraction of the visible listings, welcome to the c…