The Web Scraping Club
Pierluigi Vinciguerra, Federico Trotta, Antonello ZaniniNews, 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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THE LAB #106: Is Camoufox still effective, and do the forks help?
The project moved to CloverLabs and the fork tree keeps growing. We read the code and ran four builds against DataDome to see what still works.
Camoufox has been our default anti-detect browser for more than a year. We said so in THE LAB #...
5 mistakes that are driving up your scraping costs - Insights from DataImpulse
This is a guest post written by the DataImpulse team, tackling the problem behind the costs of scraping. For an independent benchmark of proxy prices, visit our Proxy Pricing Benchmark tool.
Every product has its own price, usually...
Why and How to Build a Web Scraper with Rust in 2026
What do popular developer technologies like ZeroClaw, IronClaw, Codex CLI, and many others have in common, besides thousands of GitHub stars, tons of downloads, and growing communities? They are all developed in Rust!
Rust is becoming incr...
THE LAB #105: If LLMs Can Bypass CAPTCHAs, Are CAPTCHA Solver Services Cooked?
Bypassing hCaptcha in the AI era
Think back to 2023. The story about large language models was that they would automate most work involving reading or writing, and a good slice of the work that means looking at a screen the way you do. We...
How to Scrape Open-Source Datasets Ethically
When you need to scrape data from the web, “open data” and “open-source datasets” sound like a green light. No paywall, no login, no restrictions: just data sitting there, ready to be collected. It is a reasonable assumption, right?
Well,...
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