The Web Scraping Club
Pierluigi Vinciguerra, Federico Trotta, Antonello Zanini, Patrick van den Bosch, Joel GriffithNews, 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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Building an online grocery agent with Browserless
When building an AI agent to automate an online task, we recognize the value of our local browser in terms of ease of use. We’re already logged in to most of our preferred websites; the browser’s sessions store the useful part of our most r...
Can invisible_playwright Beat Bot Detection? A Hands-On Test and Review
invisible_playwright is an open-source anti-detect browser engine for Playwright. It lets you write automation scripts that control Firefox while reducing the risk of bot detection.
In this post, I’ll explain what the tool is, how it works...
What breaks in a long-running authenticated scraper session, and how to keep it logged in
This is a guest post written by Joel Griffith, Founder of Browserless.
Most authenticated scrapers I’ve seen don’t fail at login. They fail when one piece of state stops matching everything else, even while the login still seems val...
How to Use Scraping to Analyze Social Media Trends
Social media trend analysis starts with a simple question: “What are people starting to talk about, and how do I catch it before it becomes obvious?”
You could scroll through feeds, follow hashtags, and check what each platform labels as t...
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
Imperva is one of the anti-bots we didn’t write a lot about in the past, probably because, for some reason I ignore, I’ve never encountered it in my career of scrapin...
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Co Founder of Databoutique.com, web scraper with 10+ years of experience, writing The Web Scraping Club
I am a freelance Technical Writer specializing in writing technical articles and documenting digital products. My mission is to democratize software through technical content.
I'm a software engineer, but I prefer to call myself a technology bishop. Spreading knowledge through writing is my mission.
Founder, Hyper Solutions. We turn browser-automation workloads into single API calls. Anti-bot solving for enterprise data collection.
Founder and CEO of browserless.io
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