Web Scraping and Data

The “ScrapingBee vs Scrapy” question is not really a head-to-head. ScrapingBee sells one HTTP endpoint that returns HTML, JSON or a screenshot for a URL, billed per credit. Scrapy is a Python framework you install, configure, and run on your own infrastructure, billed only as the server time and proxies you point it at. The … Read more

If you ran more than a few hundred requests from one IP, you already know the answer. One IP gets throttled, captcha-walled, or outright blocked. The standard fix is rotating proxies Python — swap the IP per request, or hold it for a session, depending on the workload. This piece is the part I wish … Read more

Both projects automate a real browser to test a web app or pull data from one. After that sentence they stop agreeing on almost anything. The Playwright vs Selenium 2026 comparison comes down to a protocol choice: Playwright drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit over the Chrome DevTools Protocol and the cross-browser equivalent. Selenium drives the … Read more

Browse AI is the easiest way to scrape a website without writing code: click through a page in a recorder, point at the data. Browse AI learns the pattern and returns rows on a schedule. The flip side is what you pay for that convenience. Credits reset on a hard cycle (no rollover on the … Read more

If you typed “best residential proxy 2026” into Google, you are not shopping for a listicle — you are shopping for a single answer. “Best” here is conditional on the workload, and the answer that works for an ad-verification team in Sao Paulo quietly burns the budget of a sneaker monitor in Berlin. The piece … Read more

If you are shopping for Apify alternatives, you already know what Apify is: the platform where you rent Actors out of a 74,000+ marketplace (the figure in the Apify Store title; the public blog has used smaller numbers historically and the headline on apify.com/store today is the larger one), run your own code in a … Read more

Anti-bot bypass techniques in 2026 are not one trick. The providers on the other side have stacked seven detection layers, and each one has its own counter. Skipping a layer works against a marketing page and fails the moment the target turns on a real product. This article walks through what each layer actually measures … Read more

Bright Data is one of the oldest names in the public proxy and web data business. If you have ever researched how to scrape at scale without getting blocked, you have seen the name surface within the

An independent 2026 review of ScrapingBee: credit-based pricing, JS rendering, premium and stealth proxy costs, and where ScrapingBee fits versus Bright Data and Browserless.