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

Latest Posts

Web scraping with client-side Vanilla JavaScript

Web scraping with client-side Vanilla JavaScript

Matt Stephens

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.

6 min read Mar 28, 2022

How to scrape free proxy lists and find working proxies

How to scrape free proxy lists and find working proxies

Matt Stephens

Get a dynamic list of usable proxies. Proxy Scraper will automatically test and output working public proxies from 17 free proxy websites and APIs.

5 min read Mar 1, 2022

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

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

Matt Stephens

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

5 min read Feb 18, 2022

What exactly is a dynamic page?

What exactly is a dynamic page?

Matt Stephens

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.

4 min read Jan 31, 2022

How to efficiently scrape any website with Cheerio Scraper

How to efficiently scrape any website with Cheerio Scraper

Matt Stephens

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

7 min read Jan 25, 2022

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