The 7 Best Reddit Scrapers in 2026 (Free & Paid, Tested)
Looking for the best way to scrape Reddit posts and comments in 2026? Here's an honest, hands-on comparison of the top Reddit scrapers — including the…
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I Tested Every Web Scraping Tool Against Lazada — Here's What Actually Works (May 2026)
I came across Scrapling through a recommendation on X and decided to put it through its paces — not against a demo page, but against Lazada Singapore,…
How China-focused funds turn Weibo into alt-data (Python, 2026)
If you run a China book — equities, FX, commodities, or just a macro tilt — you already know the problem: the official numbers are slow and the Englis…
I Built a SaaS Risk Scanner That Collects 35+ Signals Per Vendor. Here's What I Learned About Scraping, LLMs, and Solo Engineering.
I got into lifetime SaaS deals (LTDs) the way most people do - I bought a few on AppSumo and got burned. Not catastrophically, but enough to notice: t…
How I built a Bluesky scraper using the AT Protocol API (and published it on Apify)
Bluesky hit 40 million users earlier this year, and unlike Twitter, it runs on an open protocol — the AT Protocol — where public data is genuinely pub…
SiteRows example #1:
Hello world! I'm starting this series of examples/use-cases of siterows.com, the new app I recently built. Without further ado... 🔹 Quick reminder of …
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable Dublin rental listings are fragmented even across the main portals. D…
Optimizing Browser Fingerprint Spoofing and Session Validation in Automated Scrapers
Maintaining session longevity in high-entropy adversarial environments requires decoupling structural browser fingerprinting from state validation. In…
Cleaning Background Noise and Scaling AI Scraping
While optimizing the background workers for a data-heavy pipeline (specifically cleaning up bloated log files and refactoring core/tools/buildinpublic…
Why Your Requests + BeautifulSoup Stack Will Fail in Production
TL;DR — requests plus BeautifulSoup is the right tool for tutorials, side projects, and one-off audits. It is the wrong tool for any scraper that has …
Your recurring scraper is re-downloading data that didn't change. Here's the 15-line fix (conditional GET)
Note: This is a cross-post. Canonical version (full long-form) lives on my blog: https://blog.spinov.online/blog/ethical-scraping-is-a-rate-limit-ques…
How to know if you actually need mobile proxies (without buying any)
Every scraping project I start, the same question comes up: do I actually need mobile proxies for this target, or will residential or datacenter do? P…
Open-source Playwright wrapper that passes bot.sannysoft.com, pixelscan, and CreepJS in headless mode
Been scraping for a while and got tired of getting blocked the moment a page loads. Standard Playwright leaks everywhere — TLS fingerprint, navigator.…
# Building Instagram OSINT Projects with HikerAPI
I recently experimented with building an Instagram OSINT project on Linux using Python and HikerAPI. Originally I tried older scraping libraries and u…
What I learned scraping 141 crypto cardholder agreements
On 3 February 2026, three unrelated crypto cards — CEX.IO Card, Trustee Plus, and IN1 — stopped processing payments on the same day. They had no paren…
XCrawl vs Puppeteer vs Playwright: Which Web Scraping Tool Saves You More Time in 2026?
The Web Scraping Toolkit Spectrum Let's be real: there are dozens of ways to scrape the web. From raw curl to full-blow browser automation frameworks.…
How to Scrape JS-Rendered E-Commerce Pages Without Getting Blocked (2026 Guide)
The Problem E-commerce sites like Amazon, Walmart, and Target have moved to heavy JavaScript rendering. Traditional HTTP clients (curl, requests, fetc…
CrawlForge v4.2.2: New CLI + 3 Tools for Local AI Scraping
Today we are shipping CrawlForge v4.2.2 , our biggest release since launch. It brings three new tools, a standalone command-line interface, and a quie…
Stop Building Fragile Scrapers — Build Actors Instead
TL;DR — A "scraper" is a script that ran once. An "actor" is a unit of work with an input contract, an output schema, observability, and a billing mod…
Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and the one-line fix)
Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and how I fixed it in one config flag) I publish a small Reddit scraper actor on t…
I scraped every **Show HN** post from May 2025 to May 2026 that crossed **200 points** and ran a quick analysis. There were 334 of them. Here is what landed.
Top 15 Show HN posts of the year Rank Points Comments Title 1 3346 965 Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now 2 1557 363 Jmail – Go…
Track brand mentions across China's top 5 social platforms in one API call — $0.045 per mention
If your brand competes for Chinese consumers and you're not actively monitoring conversations on Weibo, RedNote, Bilibili, Douban, and Xueqiu, you're …
Why Web Agents Fail on Protected Sites — And How to Fix It at the Infrastructure Level
Web agents are increasingly central to how AI systems interact with the web — automating research, extracting structured data, completing multi-step w…
6 Firecrawl Alternatives for Developers in 2026
Your pipeline scrapes 10,000 pages through Firecrawl. A third come back as failures—access blocks and challenges, empty responses from SPAs that loade…
Sample dataset analysis: a 100-row snapshot of Sitemap
I pulled a 100-row sample of Sitemap to see whether the dataset is rich enough to support pipeline health checks, content auditing, structured-data va…
Automating Web Intelligence with Python: A Practical Guide
Automating Web Intelligence with Python: A Practical Guide Web intelligence — the systematic extraction of actionable data from the web — sounds like …
What to do when websites change and your spider doesn't know
Empty-field-rate monitoring catches selectors that return nothing. It does not catch selectors that return something wrong. The most damaging form of …
Bypassing Akamai v3 sensor_data with TLS in 2026 — why the deobfuscator is a trap
I have spent the last two years staring at Akamai's bot manager. Specifically the _abck cookie, the bm_sz cookie, and the giant base64-looking string …
How We Built a Federal Court Rules Database
Parsing 94 district courts worth of PDFs. It went about as well as you'd expect. We started with a simple problem. My co-founder is a litigator. I am …
Weibo's Hot Search Is the Best Real-Time Feed of Chinese Public Sentiment in 2026
Weibo's "hot search" (热搜) is the closest thing China has to a real-time barometer of public attention. It updates every few minutes, ranks topics by a…