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

Techniques
Cookie Scraping: How Cookies Work Between Browser & Server

Understand how cookies travel between browser and server and how to handle cookies in web scraping to keep sessions alive. Read the full guide with examples.

20 April · 11 min
By Language
C++ Web Scraping: The Complete Guide

Scrape websites in C++: libcurl and HTTP clients, HTML parsing libraries, HTTPS, proxies, and multithreading. A complete guide with practical code examples.

18 April · 17 min
Techniques
How to Crawl a Sitemap Before Scraping a Website

Learn to crawl a sitemap before scraping: find sitemap.xml, parse URL lists, handle index files and lastmod, and build an efficient crawl queue. With code.

16 April · 6 min
Guides & Basics
Web Crawling vs Web Scraping vs Parsing: Key Differences

Web crawling vs web scraping vs parsing: what each process does, how they work together in one pipeline, and which one your project needs. Get them straight.

14 April · 8 min
By Language
Creating a REST API with Spring: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Step-by-step tutorial on creating a REST API with Spring: project setup, controllers, JSON responses, and testing. Build your first Java API endpoint today.

12 April · 11 min
By Language
C# Web Scraping: Complete Guide from Simple to Advanced

Step-by-step C# web scraping guide for .NET 8/9: HttpClient, HTML parsing, async crawling, proxies, and Playwright. Follow working examples to build your scraper.

10 April · 26 min
Techniques
CSS Selectors for Web Scraping: Complete Reference

Master CSS selectors for web scraping: classes, attributes, nth-child, combinators, and pseudo-classes with copy-paste examples. Grab the cheat sheet now.

8 April · 8 min
Proxies & Infrastructure
CyberGhost Review: Freemium VPN Proxy for Web Scraping

CyberGhost review: how the freemium VPN proxy works, its speed, privacy features, and its limits for web scraping tasks. See whether the free tier is enough.

6 April · 9 min
Data & Formats
Data Mining vs Machine Learning: Key Differences

Data mining vs machine learning explained, plus how big data, data analytics, and data science fit in. Clear definitions and a comparison table inside.

4 April · 10 min