Guides, research, and case studies on web scraping, price monitoring, and data delivery for analytics, marketing, and product needs.
Which online regex testers are still maintained, which engines they really run, and the flavor gaps that break scrapers between prototype and production.
Step-by-step 2Captcha integration in C#: send reCAPTCHA tasks to the API, poll for solution tokens, and submit forms automatically. Get the full code example.
Solve reCAPTCHA v2 in Python with 2Captcha: identify the widget type, get a token, and submit it inside the two-minute window. Runnable code, real costs, real gotchas.
XPath for web scraping: the cheat sheets and library references worth keeping open, five expressions that run clean and return the wrong nodes, and where XPath stops working.
Six WebDriver habits that separate a scraper you babysit from one you schedule: outline highlighting, safer presence checks, tight explicit waits, JavaScript click fallbacks, download preferences that still work, and the limits of a user-agent override.
A 2026 guide to JSON viewers, formatters and validators: online tools, browser extensions, Notepad++ plugins, CLI utilities and desktop apps, with current prices and size limits.
Every layer of scraping protection in practice: rate limits, account gating, CAPTCHAs, JavaScript challenges, TLS fingerprinting, behavioural scoring, honeypots, crawler verification, bot-management platforms, watermarking and the legal layer. Each with its documented bypass and its current cost to the attacker.
Compare the best CAPTCHA solving services and tools for web scraping and automation: verified August 2026 prices per 1,000, coverage by challenge type, speed, and API integration.
How to convert a website to JSON in 2026: read the JSON-LD or hidden API the page already ships, fall back to selectors, with a measured parser benchmark and hosted API prices checked 10 August 2026.