Guides, research, and case studies on web scraping, price monitoring, and data delivery for analytics, marketing, and product needs.
One name covers six things moving at six different speeds. Current versions, W3C status, Grid sizing, cloud grid list prices and detection signals, all read from primary sources on 13 August 2026.
What web scraping is, how a scraper works step by step, and what it costs: proxy, rendering and CAPTCHA prices read from vendor pages on 13 August 2026, library versions current to that date, and where the law actually stands after hiQ v. LinkedIn.
Wireshark 4.6.8 as an HTTP sniffer: capture filters that do not drop QUIC, key-log HTTPS decryption, JA3/JA4 fingerprint comparison, and priced alternatives, checked August 2026.
Six WordPress scraper plugins checked against WordPress 7.0.4 and WooCommerce 11.0.1 on 13 August 2026, and the custom PHP that replaces them when they run out.
XML parsing in Python, Node, PHP, Java and Go, rechecked August 2026: namespace traps that return nothing, DOM versus streaming memory measured on a 32 MB feed, and which parsers still open external entities by default.
XPath for web scraping, rechecked in August 2026: the seven node types, all thirteen axes, the XPath 1.0 comparison rules that silently drop rows, and why a path copied from Chrome returns nothing in lxml.