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Twitch Chat Scraper: export any VOD's full chat replay for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Twitch stores a complete timestamped chat replay for every public VOD but exposes no...…
Threads Reply Scraper: export the full conversation tree of any public post
Quick answer: Meta's official Threads API is gated behind a developer-account review and refuses...…
Steam Regional Price Data: fetch 60 regions in one run for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Steam publishes regional prices on the public store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails...…
When scraping orchestration is the wrong abstraction for LLM workflows
LLM apps often need structured web data, not a scraping platform. Here's how to choose between orchestration and a simple extraction API.…
How I Built a Google Shopping Scraper with Python & Playwright
Why I Built This I wanted to compare prices across Google Shopping without clicking through 100 tabs...…
HTTP 200 Is a Lie: A 30-Line Schema Canary for Source Drift
A scraper that returns HTTP 200 is not a scraper that returns good data. Those are two different...…
I Tested Every Web Scraping Tool Against Lazada — Here's What Actually Works (May 2026)
Installing Scrapling on a 4GB VPS: pitfalls, wiring into an AI agent via MCP, browser selection benchmarks, the Camoufox surprise, and a priority ladder validated against Lazada's …
SiteRows example #1:
Hello world! I'm starting this series of examples/use-cases of siterows.com, the new app I recently...…
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable
Data Normalization Across Dublin Rental Portals: How to Make Listings Comparable Dublin...…
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...…
Optimizing Stealth Browser Fingerprint Integrity and Session Auth
Maintaining execution stealth requires strict alignment between browser fingerprint headers and...…
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...…
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...…
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:...…
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...…
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...…
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...…
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...…
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...…
Three memory-leak patterns in long-running scrapers (and how I caught them after 968 Trustpilot runs)
Memory leaks in scrapers do not crash the run. They quietly bump the Apify Memory limit from 1 GB to...…