Web scraping remains necessary for AI data pipelines because LLM web search tools cannot replace it, according to an article on Substack's The Web Scraping Club. The article explains that large langua…
An autonomous agent from Manus AI collected a 412-entry fingerprint inventory from Kasada's anti-bot system on nike.com, revealing the browser signals the system reads to build user fingerprints. The …
Obscura, a from-scratch Rust browser engine that embeds V8 and claims to run in about 30 MB of RAM, was tested against Akamai Bot Manager on Radisson's booking pages, where it failed to clear the anti…
The Web Scraping Club newsletter marked its fourth anniversary with more than 7,000 subscribers, founder Pierluigi Vinciguerra wrote, noting the publication has run with no marketing efforts and 0 ads…
After 2,190 production runs across 32 scrapers, a developer found that conditional GET requests and rate limiting — not robots.txt compliance — are the key to ethical web scraping that avoids server s…