Scraping Sites That Block Bots: Cloudflare, DataDome & PerimeterX
For most of the web, scraping is a solved problem: fetch the URL, parse the HTML, done. The interesting sites — the ones with prices, listings, review…
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How to Build a Web Crawler with Scrapy
How to Build a Web Crawler with Scrapy tags: python, scrapy, webscraping, tutorial How to Build a Web Crawler with Scrapy: A Step-by-Step Guide Imagin…
Half the web already hands you clean product data. You just have to ask.
I once spent an afternoon writing selectors to pull a price off a product page. Wrote the CSS path, handled the currency symbol, dealt with the sale-p…
Scraping millions of pages a day: what actually breaks
I ran a scraping platform that processed millions of pages a day at roughly 95% extraction success, around three seconds per page. The fetch-and-parse…
Google Trends ties its data tokens to your IP and it broke my scraper in a way I didn't expect
I just shipped a Google Trends scraper as an Apify Actor ( https://apify.com/swiftscrape/google-trends-fast-scraper ), and the most interesting part w…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
How We Optimized a Django Playwright Scraper to Save 60% on Rotating Proxy Bandwidth
As indie hackers and backend developers, we love using modern browser automation frameworks like Playwright to handle heavy, JavaScript-rendered dynam…
Building a Lean, Single-Worker Broken URL Monitor for Data Pipelines
The Technical Problem: Websites Drift, Pipelines Don't Know Long-running scraping pipelines have a structural assumption baked in: the URLs you config…
Reverb Scraper: pull historical sold prices for any musical gear
Quick answer: The Reverb Price Guide is the largest public dataset of used-instrument sale prices on the internet — millions of completed transactions…
I scraped 50,000 G2 reviews to map the 2026 SaaS Battlecard Atlas
The 2026 SaaS Battlecard Atlas: What 50,000 G2 Reviews Reveal About 25 of the Most-Used B2B Tools A few weeks ago I got tired of guessing which B2B Sa…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
Build an MCP Server for Agentic Web Scraping and Real-Time LLM Grounding
Large Language Models (LLMs) operate in a vacuum. To build autonomous agents that perform market research, track public pricing across e-commerce site…
Rate Limits Are a Feature, Not a Bug
Most scraper "incidents" I'm pulled into start the same way: someone shows me a graph of 429 responses and asks how to make them go away. The honest a…
How I Built a SERP Topic Gap Analyzer on Apify (And What the Prefill Bug Taught Me)
Most content gap tools work backwards. They start with keyword data and try to reverse-engineer what your competitors rank for. I wanted to start from…
From a Single IP to Exfiltrated Passwords in a PNG: My First Freelance Pentest Engagement
Disclaimer: This article describes a security research activity carried out in a controlled context , with educational goals and the aim of improving …