So you want to Scrape like the Big Boys? 🚀

Posted on November 03, 2021 in Security • Tagged with scraping, industrial level scraping, big boys • 7 min read

What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.


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Detecting scraping services

Posted on March 11, 2021 in Scraping • Tagged with detecting, scraping, security, fingerprint • 13 min read

In this blog post I will demonstrate how it is possible to detect several scraping services: luminati.io, ScrapingBee, scraperapi.com, scrapingrobot.com, scrapfly.io.


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Breaking Google's Recaptcha

Posted on March 01, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, recatpcha, scraping • 5 min read

A captcha is a mechanism to distinguish human users from automated programs (bot). There are many service providers in the Internet that have a major incentive to prevent bots from (ab)using their systems.


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Scraping search engines in 2019

Posted on February 04, 2019 in Scraping • Tagged with puppeteer, scraping, modern • 4 min read

Modern scraping now is mostly done with real browsers, configured to behave like real humans.


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Discontinuation of GoogleScraper

Posted on December 24, 2018 in GoogleScraper • Tagged with discontinuation, GoogleScraper, scraping • 1 min read

Discontinuation of GoogleScraper in favor of https://www.npmjs.com/package/se-scraper


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Tutorial: Youtube scraping with puppeteer

Posted on October 29, 2018 in Scraping • Tagged with Youtube, Video, Scraping • 4 min read

How to scrape youtube videos using puppeteer


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