Tips, tools, and best practices for web scraping, data extraction, and automation.
39 articles
A complete Selenium web scraping guide with proxy rotation — selenium-wire code for rotating proxy lists and gateways, rotation cadence, and how to actually avoid blocks.
A complete Amazon web scraping guide: methods with Python code, why you need residential proxies, and how to bypass Amazon's CAPTCHAs, IP bans, and blocks.
The best AI research and data extraction tools compared — Firecrawl, Perplexity, Apify, Exa, Diffbot and more, sorted by what each is genuinely best for.
Build a working proxy rotator in Python from scratch — from a three-line version to a resilient class that retries and retires dead proxies automatically.
Web scraping needs proxies to avoid IP bans, unlock geo-restricted data, and beat anti-bot systems. Here is exactly why, and how to choose the right type.
Learn how to set up proxies in Selenium in 2026 — native vs selenium-wire, authenticated and rotating proxies, headless setup, and the gotchas to avoid, with code.
The best SEO proxies for SERP scraping in 2026, tested for Google rank tracking, geo-targeting, and success rates — residential, mobile, and SERP APIs compared.
Learn how to use proxies with Cloudflare Workers in 2026: why fetch has no proxy option, plus provider APIs, TCP sockets, secrets, caching, and working code.
A complete developer guide to using SOCKS5 proxies in Python — authenticated and rotating setups with requests and aiohttp, socks5h DNS, and troubleshooting.
A practical guide to crawling large sites at scale with Firecrawl — map, async crawl jobs, batch scraping, deduplication, incremental updates, and proxy pairing.
A hands-on guide to building a production RAG pipeline with Firecrawl — scrape and crawl any site into LLM-ready markdown, then chunk, embed, and retrieve with Python.
Learn how to scrape any website using Firecrawl in 2026 — from your first API call to crawling sites and extracting structured AI data with code examples.