ScrapingBee – The Best Web Scraping API

A SOCKS5 proxy is an intermediary server that forwards your traffic to a target on your behalf using version 5 of the SOCKS protocol. It works below application protocols such as HTTP, enabling it to relay TCP and UDP traffic without encrypting that traffic by default. This makes a SOCKS5 proxy useful when an application needs flexible routing through a particular server or e...

Serverless scraping runs Puppeteer or Playwright inside a cloud function such as AWS Lambda, which scales with demand and bills per millisecond. Each library drives a headless Chromium build packaged for Lambda.

A script that works on a laptop usually deploys without errors. Each new execution environment then spends seconds unpacking Chromium before it loads a page, a...

A scraper can break without an error. On Selenium's GitHub page, selectors written in 2019 matched a year later but returned "16.5k" instead of exact counts.

AutoQALLMs, a research framework, uses a large language model (LLM) to write Selenium tests from HTML, and regenerates them after a page change.

This guide tests whether regeneration works as self-healing f...

Most antidetect browser roundups just repeat the vendors' spec sheets. That makes it hard to tell which tools hold up. So we tested. We ran all 10 below through three fingerprint checkers (Pixelscan, Iphey, and CreepJS) on clean residential proxies, and re-checked every price and free tier for this update.

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When you're scraping multiple websites with Crawlee for Python, using an expensive proxy for every request doesn't make much sense. Some websites happily return the HTML you need without any special treatment, while others throw CAPTCHA challenges at your scraper or quietly serve anti-bot pages with an HTTP 200 status. This is where tiered proxies come in: th...