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Practical writeups on web scraping, anti-bot tactics, structured extraction, SERPs and the messy realities of building data pipelines for AI.

How to Take Full-Page Screenshots with a Screenshot API

Ever tried to capture an entire webpage in one go, only to end up taking multiple screenshots and stitching them together? Taking a full page screenshot manually is about as fun as printing a web page and scanning it. Whether you're a developer needing a complete page snapshot for testing, or a marketer monitoring how a landing page looks over time, the struggle is real. Even the Chrome full page screenshot trick in DevTools (handy, but hidden) is fine for one-off captures, not so much for autom

Sam May 4, 2025 14 min read

How to Scrape Google Search Results

Curious about how to scrape data from Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)? In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover how Google SERPs are structured, the essential tools for automated scraping, like Playwright for JavaScript rendering, and how to parse dynamic content.

Vishesh Nagpal Mar 13, 2025 16 min read

Building a crawler with Scrapy

Whether you're a marketer tracking competitor prices, a researcher gathering information, or a developer building the next big data-driven application, the ability to efficiently extract data from the web is invaluable.

Vishesh Nagpal Jan 3, 2025 7 min read

Top Web Scraping Tools in 2024

The digital landscape of 2024 is awash with information, and web scraping has become the compass guiding businesses and researchers through this vast ocean of data.

Youssef Oct 2, 2024 16 min read

Safeguarding Your Website from Abusive Web Scraping

Abusive scraping can cause significant problems for website owners, including server overload, unauthorized data extraction, and the potential exposure of sensitive information. Implementing effective anti-scraping mechanisms is crucial to protect your website from these threats.

Sam Sep 19, 2024 7 min read