Spidra launched an AI-powered web scraping tool that extracts structured data from e-commerce and real estate sites without requiring manual selectors, using JSON schemas or plain-text prompts to defi…
Python's Beautiful Soup library remains a top choice for web scraping in 2026, offering a gentle learning curve and robust HTML parsing. A step-by-step guide demonstrates scraping book data from books…
Spidra launched a crawl API that automatically discovers and extracts data from entire websites by following links, rendering pages, solving CAPTCHAs, and using AI extraction. Users submit a starting …
Spidra's browser actions enable web scrapers to interact with dynamic content by executing a sequence of clicks, scrolls, and other actions in a real browser before data extraction, overcoming limitat…
Spidra and Spider.cloud are two distinct web scraping products, not the same tool as often confused. Spidra is an AI-powered API that extracts structured data from web pages using natural language pro…
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealed at a private WorkOS event on June 2, 2026, that he no longer prompts Claude directly but instead writes loops that prompt the agent. Peter S…
A comparison of raw HTML and Markdown formats for feeding web content into large language models shows that HTML contains significant boilerplate—navigation menus, scripts, cookie banners, and ads—tha…
Spidra released a Node.js SDK that enables developers to scrape any website using plain English descriptions instead of CSS selectors or browser automation tools. The SDK handles browser rendering, an…
Spidra released a Python SDK that allows developers to scrape any website — including those with JavaScript rendering, anti-bot protections, and CAPTCHAs — using a single package and plain English pro…
Spidra released a new API that allows developers to scrape websites by sending a URL and receiving structured data, eliminating the need for custom selectors, headless browsers, or anti-bot workaround…
AI scraping uses artificial intelligence to extract data from websites by understanding content meaning rather than relying on fixed structural rules, allowing it to adapt to site changes and handle J…
Spidra launched eight free developer tools for working with web data, including utilities for converting websites to Markdown or JSON, taking screenshots, and generating AI questions from page content…
Developers building AI search or RAG pipelines often struggle to extract structured data from websites with inconsistent page layouts. A new approach uses a scraping layer that handles AI extraction n…
A technology journalist tested dozens of AI web scraping tools in 2026 and identified five that reliably extract structured data from real websites. The top pick, Spidra, uses plain-text commands and …
WebGL fingerprinting is a hardware-level anti-bot technique that uses GPU rendering differences to create unique device identifiers, making it difficult to spoof compared to software-level signals. Th…
Spidra launched an AI-powered web scraping platform that converts dynamic websites into structured APIs for data extraction, lead generation, and automation. The platform handles CAPTCHA solving, prox…
Pyppeteer_stealth patches automation signals in Pyppeteer to evade anti-bot detection systems. The plugin hides the WebDriver flag, replaces the HeadlessChrome user agent string, and populates empty n…
Patchright, a patched version of Playwright, removes automation flags like `navigator.webdriver` to help scrapers avoid detection by anti-bot systems. In a test against a protected e-commerce page, Pa…
Web data extraction has become a core component of AI training pipelines, as web pages make up a large share of training data for most large language models. Collecting this data is complicated by ant…
Ten web scraping APIs for AI applications in 2026 were ranked by output quality, anti-bot bypass, and extraction accuracy, with Spidra leading for AI-native scraping and browser automation. The compar…