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SIÁN Agency3d ago • 4 min read
Why Your Requests + BeautifulSoup Stack Will Fail in Production
TL;DR — requests plus BeautifulSoup is the right tool for tutorials, side projects, and one-off...
#automation#python#softwareengineering#webscraping
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kai silva2d ago • 2 min read
Optimizing Browser Fingerprint Spoofing and Session Validation in Automated Scrapers
Maintaining session longevity in high-entropy adversarial environments requires decoupling structura...
#automation#cybersecurity#javascript#webscraping
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Anup KaranjkarMay 21, 2026 • 5 min read
Web Scraping with Node.js: Puppeteer vs Cheerio (Complete 2026 Guide)
Master web scraping in Node.js with Puppeteer and Cheerio. Static vs dynamic scraping, proxy rotatio...
#webscraping#puppeteervs#nodejsscraping#puppeteerscraping
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John Rooney2d ago • 8 min read
Building a self-hosted browser scraping service (is it more hassle than its worth?)
There is a version of this project that is not worth doing. If you need browser rendering for a...
#browser#cloakbrowser#zyte#webscraping
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PromptCloud3d ago • 7 min read
Why Real Browser Automation Is Replacing Simple HTTP Scraping
*The production problem * Simple HTTP scraping still works for a lot of pages. If a site returns...
#webscraping
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Shanewas Ahmed4d ago • 1 min read
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...
#automation#opensource#python#webscraping
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SIÁN Agency5d ago • 3 min read
Stop Fighting the DOM. Selector-First Thinking Will Save Your Scraper.
Most broken scrapers I see have the same shape: someone wrote the extraction logic first and the...
#javascript#programming#webdev#webscraping
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Daniel Ainsworth2d ago • 3 min read
How I built a Bluesky scraper using the AT Protocol API (and published it on Apify)
Bluesky hit 40 million users earlier this year, and unlike Twitter, it runs on an open protocol — th...
#bluesky#webscraping#typescript#apify
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atheris-ee4d ago • 5 min read
How to know if you actually need mobile proxies (without buying any)
Every scraping project I start, the same question comes up: do I actually need mobile proxies for....
#webscraping#opensource#node#typescript
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Aamir Sahil4d ago • 1 min read
The Hidden Problem Behind Technical SEO Crawlers: URL Explosion
One of the biggest challenges in large-scale website crawling isn’t crawling itself. It’s...
#algorithms#performance#systemdesign#webscraping
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Massi6d ago • 5 min read
Puppeteer networkidle is not a scraping strategy
The most suspicious line in a lot of Puppeteer and Playwright scrapers is not page.goto. It is...
#webscraping#javascript#puppeteer#playwright
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PromptCloud2d ago • 6 min read
Robots.txt Is Not Enough Anymore: What Developers Need to Know About AI Crawler Controls
*The production problem * For a long time, developers treated robots.txt as the main control layer.....
#webscraping
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kai silva3d ago • 1 min read
Optimizing Stealth Browser Fingerprint Integrity and Session Auth
Maintaining execution stealth requires strict alignment between browser fingerprint headers and...
#buildinpublic#cybersecurity#python#webscraping
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Annabelle4d ago • 4 min read
BeautifulSoup and Requests for Web Scraping With Python: When Simple Still Works
Not every data collection workflow requires browser automation or complex network impersonation. For...
#webscraping#python#backend#devops
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Alex Spinov 3d ago • 5 min read
Your recurring scraper is re-downloading data that didn't change. Here's the 15-line fix (conditional GET)
Note: This is a cross-post. Canonical version (full long-form) lives on my blog:...
#webscraping#python#ai#apify
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Caspar Bannink2d ago • 4 min read
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable Dublin...
#data#dataengineering#sideprojects#webscraping
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AlterLab2d ago • 7 min read
How to Build Token-Efficient Web Scraping Pipelines for AI Agents Using n8n
TL;DR Building token-efficient scraping pipelines for AI agents requires stripping heavy...
#datapipelines#automation#webscraping#llm
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kai silva3d ago • 1 min read
Cleaning Background Noise and Scaling AI Scraping
While optimizing the background workers for a data-heavy pipeline (specifically cleaning up bloated....
#gemini#llm#python#webscraping
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Michael Ozersky2d ago • 1 min read
SiteRows example #1:
Hello world! I'm starting this series of examples/use-cases of siterows.com, the new app I recently....
#python#showdev#sql#webscraping
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Naraya Developer6d ago • 2 min read
# Building Instagram OSINT Projects with HikerAPI
I recently experimented with building an Instagram OSINT project on Linux using Python and HikerAPI....
#python#api#webscraping
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BrowserAct6d ago • 3 min read
Google Maps Scraper: Build Local Data Pipelines That Actually Run
You do not need another CSV export that works once and quietly dies three days later. A Google Maps...
#automation#dataengineering#google#webscraping
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E. MitevMay 21, 2026 • 3 min read
Stop Scraping Betting Sites: How to Build a Real-Time Sports Tracker in Python
If you have ever tried to build a sports dashboard, an arbitrage scanner, or an automated trading...
#api#python#tutorial#webscraping
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Alex KaneMay 22, 2026 • 4 min read
Stop checking competitor prices manually — automate it with n8n (free workflow JSON)
I used to open 8 browser tabs every morning to check competitor prices on Amazon and eBay. Same...
#automation#nocode#productivity#webscraping
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Zubair Ali Babur5d ago • 2 min read
Building an Instagram Data Project Without Maintaining Scrapers
I recently worked on and needed a way to reliably pull Instagram profile/post data without spending....
#api#automation#data#webscraping
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