Why I ditched regex scrapers for an LLM parser (and when you shouldn't)
Last month I needed to scrape product details from 30 different e-commerce sites. Each site used its own HTML structure, class names changed weekly, a…
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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…
I Built an API That Turns Any Website Into JSON Using Just CSS Selectors
I've written a lot of scrapers. The HTML parsing part is never the interesting part — and it's always the part that takes the longest. You know what d…
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…
I Spent a Weekend Fighting Flaky Scrapers — Here’s What Finally Worked
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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…