24 articles tagged with "Web-Scraping"
Looking for puppeteer alternatives that scrape faster and break less? I ranked 6 options on speed, RAM, cross-browser support, and how they handle blocks.
Apify vs RapidAPI compared on the thing that decides your bill: the billing unit. Real pricing math, where each model wins, and how to vet a marketplace API.
Outscraper alternatives compared on real billing math: why $3 per 1,000 records becomes $14, and 4 cheaper tools for Google Maps scraping in 2026.
Zyte alternatives compared on real pricing for small teams: the 123x tier spread, what 5 cheaper services cost at your volume, and which one fits.
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.
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.
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.
I benchmarked the best web scraping API options on speed, cost, and data quality. The billing model nobody talks about decides which one is actually cheap.
Why web scrapers get blocked comes down to three things: request rate, proxy quality, and fingerprint. Here's how each one trips the alarm, and how to fix it.
Build a golang web scraper with Colly from scratch. Runnable Go code for requests, CSS selectors, pagination, concurrency, CSV export, and not getting blocked.
I tested 8 tools to find the best screen scraping tool for 2026. Honest pros, cons, real pricing, and which one survives when a site changes its layout.
I spent weeks testing every major Python scraping tool. Here's what actually works in 2026 — honest pros, cons, and when to use each.
I tested 4 ways to scrape website data to Excel. Power Query, IMPORTXML, extensions, and API — only one gives you clean, auto-updating data.
Learn to scrape any website with Node.js using Cheerio and Puppeteer. Step-by-step tutorial with working code, plus when to use an API instead.
Learn Python web scraping from first request to production data. Covers requests, BeautifulSoup, headers, Selenium, and when an API saves you months of work.
Step-by-step Python + Selenium tutorial for scraping Amazon product data. Covers anti-bot evasion, rotating proxies, and when to switch to an API.
Looking for a Rainforest API alternative? I compared 5 Amazon data APIs on price, marketplaces, data depth, and seller use cases. Honest verdict inside.
I compared 5 Octoparse alternatives on real pricing, features, and use cases. From open-source to API-first — here's which one fits.
I tested 7 SerpAPI alternatives with real pricing, features, and code snippets. Here's how they compare on data quality, speed, and developer experience.
How to scrape data from Google in 2026: three real methods, from a free no-code extension to a Python script to a production SERP API. With honest tradeoffs.