Software, extensions, testers, and utilities.
Which online regex testers are still maintained, which engines they really run, and the flavor gaps that break scrapers between prototype and production.
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.
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.
Generate a root CA with OpenSSL on Windows, load it into Charles 5.2.1, and make a Genymotion device trust it: verified 10 August 2026, including the Android 14 conscrypt change that broke the old cacerts recipe.
Charles Proxy 5.2.1 reviewed for scraping, with verified August 2026 prices, the mobile capture reality on Android and iOS, and a comparison against mitmproxy, Proxyman, Fiddler and Reqable.
CodeLobster PHP Edition rechecked in August 2026: the vendor domain no longer resolves, the last build is 2.6.0 from November 2024, and the free PHP IDEs worth moving to, with versions and prices.
iMacros data extraction rechecked on 10 August 2026: the TAG and EXTRACT commands, loop mode and CSV inputs, what the Chrome and Firefox stores actually serve now, and how each macro pattern maps onto Playwright 1.62.
A visual regex tester frozen in 2013: what the railroad diagrams still do well, which paid features you can no longer buy, and the flavor gaps between its engines and your scraper.
Fiddler Classic is free but licensed for non-commercial use only and left in maintenance mode; Fiddler Everywhere costs $7 to $37 per user per month. What a debugging proxy still does for scraping recon, and where it stops.