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…
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Hello Dev.to 👋 — A Developer Joining the Community
Hey everyone! Just created my Dev.to account and wanted to say hi properly. I'm a software developer, working with Python and building side projects t…
How to scrape Recruitee jobs data (with salary) in Python — no API key
Recruitee powers the careers sites of thousands of companies (bunq, Channable, Vandebron, and many more), and every board is backed by a public Offers…
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…
How to monitor a brand across 5 Chinese social platforms with Python in 2026 — the cross-platform dedup problem and how to handle it
You want to know how a brand is being talked about in China. The catch: the conversation isn't on one platform. It's split across Weibo (microblog), R…
ATS Tech Stack Detector: pull company back-end stacks from jobs for $5.05/1K
Quick answer: Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby each publish a public job-board API that any job aggregator can hit — no auth required. An ATS tech stack d…
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…
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 …
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…
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.…
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…
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 …
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 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…