The Web Scraping Club
Pierluigi Vinciguerra, Federico Trotta, Antonello Zanini, Dennis Kriukiov, Patrick van den BoschNews, solutions and interviews about web scraping. In this substack you will find weekly content about: - Web Scraping techniques - Interviews with key people in the industry - Anti bot infos and counter measures - Real world examples and code
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Testing webclaw: A Firecrawl Alternative for Web Extraction in AI Agents
webclaw is a modern alternative to traditional web scrapers. Written in Rust and available as open source or a managed cloud service, it makes it easier to feed live web data into AI applications without reinventing the scraping stack every...
Deterministic Data: The Case for Web Scraping Over LLM Web Search Tools
In “Why Your RAG Pipelines Are Only as Good as Your Data Acquisition Layer”, I discussed that web search tools have some limitations and do not replace web scraping.
To help you understand that better, I decided to write a dedicated articl...
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.
Let’s continue the series of articles where we use Manus to better understand the surface of anti-bot solutions. The last two times, it was for THE LAB #108...
Crawl of Fame - September 2026
September starts, and so does the web scraping event season.
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The Impact of Chrome's New CPU Performance API on Web Scraping Detection
Google Chrome 152 ships with the CPU Performance API, a new Web API that allows websites to estimate a device’s CPU computational capacity through a performance tier value.
While its primary goal is to help web applications adapt their beh...
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Co Founder of Databoutique.com, web scraper with 10+ years of experience, writing The Web Scraping Club
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Founder, Hyper Solutions. We turn browser-automation workloads into single API calls. Anti-bot solving for enterprise data collection.
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