Posts by

Petr Pátek

Full-stack developer at Apify.

5 Posts

Unlocking JavaScript secrets: reverse engineering code with ChatGPT

Discover how ChatGPT can unravel the secrets of minified JavaScript and transform it into a human-readable format, making it accessible for web scraping, security research, and reverse engineering obfuscated scripts.

Petr Pátek

Apr 26, 2023

Web Scraping

What's the future of web scraping in 2023?

Let’s see what web scraping was like in 2022 from technical, legal, business, and trending perspectives, as well as try predicting what 2023 holds.

Natasha Lekh

Jan 20, 2023

Playwright

Unlocking the potential of Brave and Playwright for browser automation

Guide to help you correctly use Brave with Playwright on the Apify platform, including step-by-step code examples.

Petr Pátek

Jan 18, 2023

Proxy

Bypassing web scraping protection: get the most out of your proxies with shared IP address emulation

Learn about modern web scraping protection techniques and how to bypass them. Scrape up to three times more pages by combining IP address rotation with shared IP address emulation.

Petr Pátek

Aug 13, 2020

Tutorial

Using a man-in-the-middle proxy to scrape data from a mobile app API

In this technical post, you’ll learn how to set up a man-in-the-middle proxy and install a self-signed certificate on your mobile phone in order to intercept HTTPS communication between any mobile app and its backend API.

Petr Pátek

Jul 25, 2019