Web Scraping & Automation Guides
Practical, hands-on guides on web scraping, anti-bot bypass, proxies, and automation, from real client projects.
How to Integrate Rotating Proxies for Web Scraping (Without Getting Blocked)
A practical guide to integrating residential and rotating proxies into a Python scraper: proxy types, rotation strategies, retry logic, and how to avoid IP bans on protected sites.
How to Scrape Cloudflare-Protected Sites in 2026 (A Practical Approach)
What Cloudflare actually checks, why most scrapers fail against it, and the layered approach of stealth browsers, fingerprinting, and residential proxies that reliably gets through.
Solving CAPTCHAs in Your Scraper with 2Captcha and CapSolver
A practical guide to integrating CAPTCHA solving services into a Python scraper. Covers reCAPTCHA v2 and v3, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, token injection, and cost control.
Building a Large-Scale Web Scraper with Scrapy
How to use Scrapy for production scraping at scale. Covers spiders, item pipelines, concurrency tuning, proxy and retry middleware, and exporting to databases.
Playwright vs Puppeteer vs Selenium for Web Scraping in 2026
A practical comparison of the three main browser automation tools for scraping. Speed, stealth, language support, and which one to choose for your project.
How to Scrape Sites Protected by DataDome and PerimeterX
What DataDome and PerimeterX detect, why they are harder than basic WAFs, and the layered approach of stealth browsers, residential proxies, and session management that gets through.
How to Scrape Amazon Product Data Reliably
A practical guide to scraping Amazon product listings, prices, and reviews at scale. Covers selectors, anti-bot handling, the official API alternative, and staying reliable.
Residential Proxy Services Compared: Bright Data, Oxylabs, Smartproxy
A practical comparison of the major residential proxy providers for web scraping. Pricing models, pool quality, geo targeting, and how to choose for your project.
Automating Scraping Workflows with n8n, Make, and Zapier
How to connect a scraper to no-code automation tools so data flows into your business systems automatically. Covers webhooks, scheduling, and when to add custom code.
Scraping Google Search Results: SerpAPI vs Building Your Own
How to extract Google search data for SEO and research. Compares SERP API services with a custom scraper, covering cost, reliability, and when each makes sense.
Running Scrapers in Production: Scheduling, Queues, and Monitoring
How to take a scraper from a script to a reliable production system. Covers scheduling, task queues, retries, error alerting, and proxy health monitoring.
Reverse Engineering Private APIs for Faster, Cleaner Scraping
How to find and use a site's internal API instead of scraping HTML. Covers inspecting network traffic, replicating requests, handling auth, and why it beats browser scraping.