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

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Web Scraping with Google Apps Script

Scrape websites with Google Apps Script: send UrlFetchApp requests, parse HTML, and save results straight to Google Sheets. Try the sample script today.

16 September · 10 min
Techniques
How to Parse Messy or Wrongly Encoded HTML

Fix and parse messy HTML: detect encodings, decode entities, and tame tag soup with lenient parsers before extraction. Stop losing data to bad markup.

14 September · 9 min
Anti-Scraping & Protection
Cloudflare ScrapeShield Review: Content Protection Tool

Cloudflare ScrapeShield reviewed: email obfuscation, scrape detection, and content-duplication alerts, plus its limits and alternatives. See if it fits.

12 September · 8 min
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Amazon Scraping with Selenium WebDriver in Java

Learn Amazon scraping with Selenium WebDriver in Java: setup, locating product data, handling pagination, and avoiding blocks. Follow the tutorial.

10 September · 13 min
Techniques
Scraping Dynamic Content: Two Approaches That Work

Two proven ways to scrape dynamic content: intercept hidden API requests or render JavaScript in a headless browser. See how to pick and apply each approach.

8 September · 16 min
Business & Legal
Scraping for Journalists: Book Review

Our review of Paul Bradshaw's Scraping for Journalists: what the book teaches, who it suits, and whether it still helps newsroom data work. Take a look.

6 September · 8 min
Proxies & Infrastructure
Free vs Paid Proxies for Web Scraping: What's the Difference?

Free vs paid proxies for web scraping compared: speed, reliability, anonymity, ban rates, and real costs. Find out which proxy type fits your project.

4 September · 10 min
Techniques
Scraping HTML Graphic Elements: Possibilities and Limits

What graphics can you scrape from HTML pages? Images, SVG, canvas, and chart data explained: what is possible, what is not, and which techniques work.

2 September · 8 min
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PHP Web Scraping with cURL: From Basics to Anti-Bot Realities

Practical PHP web scraping tutorial with cURL: requests, headers, cookies, redirects, HTML parsing, and anti-bot realities. Build your first scraper today.

31 August · 16 min