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 , do…
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Почему любой антидетект на JavaScript спалится. Полгода назад я перестал латать скрапер и полез в C++ Chromium
Полгода я жил в одном и том же цикле. Собираешь скрапер, вечером он проходит все страницы, а к обеду следующего дня отдаёт сплошные капчи и 403. Добав…
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, anti-…
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 item…
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 sle…
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 a…
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 m…
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 req…
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 para…
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 — pro…
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 e…
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 clu…