Web Scraping

Crawl of Fame - October 2026

Social media scraping between closing backdoors, new datasets and lawsuits.

Oct 13 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Can You Scrape Real-Time Market Data for Profitable ML Trading?

Making the case on the challenges associated on scraping financial real-time data, feeding ML models with it, and understanding if you can make…

Oct 11 • Federico Trotta

Building an online grocery agent with Browserless

Let’s test antibot and CAPTCHA solving features, together with session persistence.

Oct 6 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Can invisible_playwright Beat Bot Detection? A Hands-On Test and Review

Have we finally found a good replacement for playwright-stealth, or even a strong alternative to Camoufox or Patchright?

Oct 4 • Antonello Zanini

What breaks in a long-running authenticated scraper session, and how to keep it logged in

Most scrapers work fine for a few hours, but not if you keep one logged in for a few weeks.

Sep 29 • Joel Griffith

The LAB #116: Warming an Imperva reese84 cookie, and replaying it without a browser

A tenth of a cent buys thirteen minutes of scraping, from any IP I tried

Sep 24 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Build or buy, now that writing code is almost free

How the break-even between building and buying moved now that agents write the code

Sep 21 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Testing webclaw: A Firecrawl Alternative for Web Extraction in AI Agents

A hands-on look at webclaw’s CLI and APIs

Sep 15 • Antonello Zanini

Deterministic Data: The Case for Web Scraping Over LLM Web Search Tools

Understanding the non-deterministic nature of AI web access, and why web scraping is the best retrieval layer

Sep 13 • Federico Trotta

The LAB #115: Manus at Work - Datadome on Leboncoin.fr

What DataDome's tag really sends and collects, read line by line on leboncoin.fr.

Sep 10 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Crawl of Fame - September 2026

Never a boring month in the web scraping industry

Sep 8 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

The Impact of Chrome's New CPU Performance API on Web Scraping Detection

Anti-bot solutions just got a new tool in their hardware fingerprinting toolbox

Sep 6 • Antonello Zanini

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