Web scraping: how to crawl without getting blocked
Your go-to guide on how to choose proxies wisely, fight Cloudflare, solve CAPTCHAs, and avoid honeytraps.
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Captcha
Insights into how anti-bot measures, such as captchas, can be bypassed for more effective web scraping and smoother data collection processes.
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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.
How anti-scraping protections work and how they get bypassed
Websites have protections to stop malicious bots. But not all bots are created equal. Find out about the methods used to avoid being blocked while scraping the web legally and ethically.
The downside of CAPTCHAs: why they're bad UX and how they get bypassed
How much do you know about captchas? Why do we need them, are there alternatives, and do they even still work on the modern web? Read our exploration of the CAPTCHA, how it fails on multiple fronts, and how it might even result in some exploitative practices across the world.
