Tutorials, API comparisons, and pricing breakdowns for web scraping, translation, and data extraction APIs. By developers, for developers.
How to find local businesses without websites using Google Maps, Python, or a free Google Sheets script. Tested live: 95 of 252 businesses had no site.
CSS selector vs XPath, settled with real benchmarks: a 22-row translation cheat sheet, speed tests in lxml, Scrapy, Selenium and Playwright, and when each wins.
Learn how to scrape data from Google Maps using Python: a working Selenium scraper with infinite scroll, plus an API method that does it in one request.
How DataForSEO SERP API pricing actually works: the 10-result billing unit, the multipliers that stack on top, and working Python for both delivery modes.
Amazon captcha is really two systems, not one. How Amazon's Robot Check and AWS WAF block scrapers, and how to adapt in 2026.
Apify alternatives compared for developers: real pricing, the compute-unit trap, and which managed API or open-source tool to switch to in 2026.
Firecrawl vs Tavily for RAG and AI agents: crawling vs search-first, real pricing, and the third data layer most comparisons leave out.
7 Phantombuster alternatives compared on real LinkedIn limits, pricing, and ban risk. Plus the data-layer approach that skips LinkedIn caps entirely.
The best Firecrawl alternatives in 2026, rated on cost, open-source options, and AI-readiness. Plus the cheaper path most roundups skip entirely.
BeautifulSoup vs Scrapy, settled with real benchmarks. I scraped 1,050 pages with both and timed everything. Here's which one wins, and when.
A PHP web scraping tutorial that actually builds a crawler: first request, DOM parsing, a link frontier, concurrency, retries, and SQLite storage.
Python, Node, Go or Rust? The best language for scraping websites depends less on speed than you think. Real comparison, code in all four, honest verdict.
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