Software, extensions, testers, and utilities.
Octoparse in August 2026: verified plan limits, metered add-on prices, which API calls need which tier, the new MCP server, and the point where a visual scraper stops being enough.
Feeding URL lists, ID lists and keyword lists into off-the-shelf scrapers: documented limits for Octoparse, Web Scraper, ParseHub, Apify, Data Miner and Bright Data, with August 2026 prices and the failure modes of long batches.
Website change detection rechecked in August 2026: verified prices for changedetection.io, Visualping, Distill.io and Fluxguard, the Google Sheets notification rule that no longer fires, and a Python watcher built on conditional requests.
Ready-made web scraping tools checked against vendor pricing pages on 13 August 2026: desktop crawlers, spreadsheet formulas, no-code clouds, scraping APIs and extensions, with derived cost per 1,000 pages from $0.45 to $36.75.
HTTP sniffers compared in August 2026: browser DevTools, online checkers, packet capture and proxy debuggers, with current versions, verified prices, and what TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3 changed.
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.