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Guides, research, and case studies on web scraping, price monitoring, and data delivery for analytics, marketing, and product needs.

Tools & Reviews
Online Regex Testers for Web Scraping: What Still Works in 2026

Which online regex testers are still maintained, which engines they really run, and the flavor gaps that break scrapers between prototype and production.

1 July · 25 min
CAPTCHA Solving
Solving reCAPTCHA in C# with the 2Captcha Service

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.

29 June · 12 min
CAPTCHA Solving
Solving reCAPTCHA v2 in Python with 2Captcha

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.

27 June · 14 min
Techniques
XPath for Web Scraping: Best Cheat Sheets & Quick References

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.

25 June · 15 min
By Language
Selenium Web Scraping in Java: Six Practical WebDriver Tips

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.

23 June · 13 min
Tools & Reviews
Best JSON Parsers, Viewers and Formatters

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.

21 June · 18 min
Anti-Scraping & Protection
How to Protect a Website from Scraping (and How It's Bypassed)

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.

19 June · 32 min
CAPTCHA Solving
Best CAPTCHA Solvers for Web Scraping and Automation

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.

17 June · 31 min
Data & Formats
Convert a Website to JSON: A Simple Way

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.

15 June · 14 min