A Practical Guide to Proxies for Web Scraping (with Python examples)
If you have written more than a couple of scrapers, you already know the pattern. The first few hundred requests fly through. Then responses slow down…
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How to Scrape Trip.com and Ctrip Hotel Reviews in 2026 (Python + a No-Code Shortcut)
Most "Trip.com scrapers" only see half the picture. Trip.com is the international brand, but the same hotel usually has a much larger pool of reviews …
How to Scrape G2 Reviews in 2026 (Python + a No-Code Shortcut)
If you have tried to scrape G2 reviews with a quick requests.get() , you already know how it goes: a 403 , a CAPTCHA, or a blank page. G2 is one of th…
I built a tool that checks whether ChatGPT recommends your brand (Python + Apify)
Your customers have stopped Googling "best note-taking app." They're asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini instead — and getting back a short list of…
Skip LinkedIn/Indeed: most companies' job boards have a public JSON API
If you've ever tried to pull job listings by scraping LinkedIn or Indeed, you know the pain: anti-bot systems, CAPTCHAs, rotating proxies, and scripts…
Scraping Indian government open data in 2026: what actually works
I maintain Village Finder , an open-source mapping project tracking over 78,000 Indian villages. It works by pulling daily raw updates straight from o…
Amazon Seller Competitor Research Methods: A Developer's Guide with Code
Author : Leo, Technical Lead at Pangolinfo Tags : amazon python api mcp web-scraping data-analysis Reading time : ~12 minutes TL;DR This tutorial walk…
Build vs buy: what running your own CAPTCHA-solving stack actually costs
Build vs buy: what running your own CAPTCHA-solving stack actually costs Every team that automates against the public web eventually hits the same for…
HIKERAPI
Title: Tried HikerAPI for accessing Instagram profile data I was looking for a simpler way to access Instagram profile information without maintaining…
Scrapling MCP: Giving Claude Code a Real Web Scraper
Claude Code can read my files and run my shell, but out of the box it can't actually go get a page from the live web in a way that survives modern ant…
Cheapest Residential Proxies That Actually Work in 2026 (A Developer's Buying Guide)
"Cheapest residential proxy" is a search query with a hidden trap: the lowest price per GB and the lowest cost per successful request are not the same…
What Makes a Residential Proxy Actually "Enterprise-Grade" (A Technical Buyer's Checklist)
"Enterprise-grade" gets slapped on every proxy provider's pricing page, but most of what differentiates a real enterprise setup from a hobby-scale one…
Residential Proxies for Developers: Picking the Right IP Strategy (2026 Comparison)
If you've ever built a scraper that worked perfectly in dev and then got blocked or CAPTCHA'd the moment it hit production traffic volume, you already…
A free proxy list that's actually checked (HTTP/SOCKS4/SOCKS5, updated every 30 min)
Every "free proxy list" you find is the same story: a giant wall of ip:port lines, 90% of them already dead, no idea which are HTTP or SOCKS, no idea …
We tested 62,541 free proxies from GitHub. Only 4% actually work.
If you've ever grabbed a "free proxy list" off GitHub, you already know the feeling: you paste 10,000 IPs into your scraper, and approximately none of…
reCAPTCHA v2 vs v3 vs Enterprise — how to tell which one you're fighting (and how to solve each)
reCAPTCHA v2 vs v3 vs Enterprise — how to tell which one you're fighting "reCAPTCHA is blocking me" is the start of a debugging session, not the end o…
What changed since the last scrape? A small change-detection layer (stdlib only)
Most of my scrapers answer one question: what's on the site right now. But that's almost never the question I actually have. What I care about is what…
WHOIS Is Broken in 2026. Here's the RDAP-First Drop-In That Actually Returns JSON
WHOIS has been quietly dying for a decade, and most teams only noticed in the last eighteen months. If you ran a domain-intelligence pipeline between …
Lead Enrichment Pipeline: From Domain to Full Company Profile (Free Stack)
The standard playbook for a BDR or founder-led sales effort goes roughly like this: get a list of target domains, enrich them with a paid tool (Clearb…
CDP Browser Control: Driving Real Chromium from Python
Playwright and Selenium are great until you hit bot detection. Google OAuth, Cloudflare, and Vercel checkpoints all flag headless browsers. Here's how…
WAFER Deep Crawler: 8-Layer Stealth Architecture - Fingerprint Layer
WAFER Deep Crawler: The 8-Layer Stealth Architecture - Fingerprint Layer Deep Dive Part of the WAFER Deep Crawler Series Suitable for developers with …
Why your reCAPTCHA v3 score is low — and how to actually raise it
Why your reCAPTCHA v3 score is low — and how to actually raise it reCAPTCHA v3 is the one that never shows a checkbox or a puzzle. Instead it watches …
Benchmarking Residential Proxy Providers: A Reproducible Test Script
Proxy benchmarks are often difficult to compare because every test environment is different. A reproducible proxy benchmark should measure latency, su…
How I killed my fragile Instagram scraper and collapsed data collection into one API call
I'm building Mimestra — it finds viral short-form videos, breaks down why they went viral, and turns that into a shoot-ready brief. This post is about…
The real cost of solving reCAPTCHA at scale (per-1,000 vs thread-based)
The real cost of solving reCAPTCHA at scale If you automate anything on the public web for long enough, reCAPTCHA is the wall you hit most. It's on fa…
Migration Playbook: Cron Script Actor. Six Steps, No Rewrites.
TL;DR — Migrating a long-running cron-based scraper to an actor architecture does not require a rewrite. It requires six structural changes applied in…
Scraping Dynamic Web Pages Without Selectors Using AI Vision (TypeScript/JavaScript Tutorial)
****# Scraping Dynamic Web Pages Without Selectors Using AI Vision (TypeScript/JavaScript Tutorial) Web scraping has traditionally been a game of cat-…
Why Data Collection Systems Work for 10 Minutes and Fail After 10,000 Requests
Most data collection systems do not fail immediately. They fail slowly as request volume exposes patterns that were invisible during testing. Many dat…
14% of the Web Is Actually Dead — But Not How You Think (We Scanned 10M Domains)
Originally published at crawlora.net . When you hit a dead URL in production, do you know whether the domain is gone — or whether an anti-bot system j…
Building a Resilient Meta Ads Scraper: What Breaks (and What I Learned Fixing It)
When I set out to build a tool for pulling ad data from Meta's platforms, the brief I gave myself was deceptively simple: let someone search for ads b…