Posts by

Matt Stephens

Full-Stack developer, web-automation engineer & technical writer. I enjoy helping others and developing new solutions. I absolutely love Next.js and GraphQL. I also have fun working with data.

5 Posts

Web scraping with client-side Vanilla JavaScript

Engineering

Web scraping

JavaScript

Web scraping with client-side Vanilla JavaScript

The free Vanilla JS Scraper tool makes web scraping more accessible by easing the learning curve. Get right into writing your first web crawler without the need for any new knowledge beyond Vanilla JavaScript.

Mar 28, 2022

How to scrape free proxy lists and find working proxies

Tutorial

Proxy

Web scraping

How to scrape free proxy lists and find working proxies

Automatically test working proxies from free public proxy websites and APIs. Export bulk lists of reliable proxies to use right now.

Mar 1, 2022

4 ways to authenticate a proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome in 2022

Proxy

Puppeteer

Headless browsers

4 ways to authenticate a proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome in 2022

Quick guide to 4 different fast and effective (and very simple) ways to help you authenticate your proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome.

Feb 18, 2022

What exactly is a dynamic page?

Web scraping

Engineering

Cheerio

What exactly is a dynamic page?

Dynamic web pages vs. static web pages: the differences, some examples, how to tell when a page is dynamic, and why it matters for web scraping.

Jan 31, 2022

Cheerio Scrape

Tutorial

Cheerio

Web scraping

How to efficiently scrape any website with Cheerio Scraper

Find out how to use Cheerio Scraper to quickly and easily extract data from the web. No programming experience necessary!

Jan 25, 2022