The Web Scraping Club
Pierluigi Vinciguerra, Antonello Zanini, Joel Griffith, Federico Trotta, 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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Crawl of Fame - November 2026
Welcome back to the Crawl of Fame; November is full of scraping events for me, and interesting readings on something I’m working on too.
Give your AI a web data layer – Decodo’s Web Data API turns any site into clean, structured dat...
How Humanization Works in Anti-Detect Browser Automation Tools
Most anti-detect and stealth browser solutions focus on providing strong browser fingerprints and preventing leaks. In many cases, that’s enough to avoid immediate blocks based on invisible JavaScript challenges running on the page.
Howeve...
The LAB #118: Scrape metadata from TikTok videos
How Hermes Agent and GLM 5.3 reverse-engineered the TikTok app to scrape video metadata
A few weeks ago, a TikTok dataset published on Hugging Face caught my eye: it contained metadata of 5.6B videos from the platform. That’s a huge datase...
Testing ScrapeUnblocker on Google and Shopee
If you follow these pages or, in general, the industry news, you know for sure that Google is becoming harder to scrape, as it also removed the destination URL from its search results.
Shopee is a website that's hard to tackle: custom bo...
Scraping JavaScript-Rendered Pages: Signs, Tests, and Tool Choice
Understanding whether a page renders content using JavaScript should start with a simple question: “Is my scraper returning nothing because the page needs JavaScript, or because something else is wrong?”
That’s because you can consider any...
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Co Founder of Databoutique.com, web scraper with 10+ years of experience, writing The Web Scraping Club
I'm a software engineer, but I prefer to call myself a technology bishop. Spreading knowledge through writing is my mission.
Founder and CEO of browserless.io
I am a freelance Technical Writer specializing in writing technical articles and documenting digital products. My mission is to democratize software through technical content.
Founder, Hyper Solutions. We turn browser-automation workloads into single API calls. Anti-bot solving for enterprise data collection.
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