Guides, research, and case studies on web scraping, price monitoring, and data delivery for analytics, marketing, and product needs.
Nine web scraper Chrome extensions compared on verified August 2026 numbers: users, versions, free-tier limits and paid prices, with the Manifest V2 store deadline and the legal trap of scraping while logged in.
A web scraping reading list rechecked in August 2026: core Python titles with dates, page counts and prices, the regex canon, storage books, and the parts that have quietly rotted.
Eleven languages compared for web scraping, rechecked in August 2026: measured parse times, current library versions and release dates, dead projects flagged, and what the choice actually costs.
Big data and data mining checked against primary sources in August 2026: what each term means, where the single-machine line actually sits now, which Hadoop-era Apache projects have been retired, and current BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift and S3 prices.
Build a 1C-Bitrix product scraper that survives real data: parse supplier prices without the decimal-separator bug, convert currency through the catalog API, and import 10,000 SKUs. Edition prices and API status verified 10 August 2026.
What anti-bot systems actually measure, layer by layer: address reputation, JA4 TLS fingerprints, header order, canvas and WebGL, automation tells and behavioural scoring. With platform and solver prices read from vendor pages on 10 August 2026, and the tells that stopped working.
How to enumerate queries under result caps of 60 and 240, pick a dedup key that survives shared switchboards and call-tracking numbers, keep a listing dataset fresh, and decide when an open dataset or a paid API beats a crawler.
GSA Captcha Breaker read against its own change log and price listings on 10 August 2026: version 4.88 of 6 November 2025, $92 one-time, and the break-even volumes that decide whether a local OCR licence pays for itself.
What a CAPTCHA actually buys you against form spam: solver rates per 1,000 read from four vendors on 10 August 2026, current pricing for reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, hCaptcha, Friendly Captcha, ALTCHA and Akismet, a measured proof-of-work cost, and where each defense breaks on real users.