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I wrote a scraper for a government agency’s announcements — and learned why boring tools win
I wrote a scraper for a government agency’s announcements — and learned why boring tools win Every morning…
Yandex Search API: How to Scrape Yandex SERPs as Structured JSON in 2026
Yandex handles search for half a billion people across Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and the wider CIS, and almost…
Give Your AI Agent a Web-Fetch Tool: a 60-Line MCP Server (Free, Self-Hosted)
Every MCP web-access tutorial I read this month pointed at a paid API. You don’t need one. To…
Your Scraper Collected 50 Rows. There Were 4,000.
A scraper can pass every check you wrote and still be wrong about the one thing you actually…
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…
How I Built an Instagram Profile Scraper in Go and Shipped It to Apify
I recently built a small Instagram profile scraper in Go, packaged it as an Apify Actor, and published…
Why your Python request gets 403 Forbidden
If you’ve had your HTTP request blocked despite using correct headers, cookies, and clean IPs, there’s a chance…
Rotating Residential Proxy Validation Lab for 2026 That You Can Reproduce and Score
What you are proving in 30 seconds You are not “testing proxies.” You are proving four properties under…
Why Your Competitive Intelligence Scrapers Fail: A Deep Dive into Browser Fingerprinting
You’ve built a scraper to track a competitor’s pricing. You’re using high-quality residential proxies, you’re rotating User-Agents, and…
Mitigating IP Bans During Web Scraping: A TypeScript Approach for Legacy Codebases
Introduction In web scraping, one of the persistent challenges faced by developers and QA engineers is getting your…
