#web-scraping

#web-scraping

caniscrape checks a website for common anti-bot mechanisms and reports: A difficulty score (0-10) Which protections are active (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai, hCaptcha, etc.) What tools you'll likely need (headless browsers, proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, etc.) Whether using a scraping API might be better This helps you decide the right scraping approach before you waste time building a bot that keeps getting blocked.

The UK is one of the world's worst performers when it comes to protecting against bots - though most countries are pretty poor. That's according to DataDome, which states that only 1.8% of large UK domains are fully protected against bots, compared with a Europe-wide average of 2.5% and a global average of 2.8%. Bigger organizations are no better than smaller ones, with only 2% of domains with more than 30 million monthly visits fully protected.

"It's a rip off 'Find my Friends.' I was able to reverse engineer the SF parking ticket system so I could see close to real time where parking tickets were issued in the city. And I was making a map of where the actual parking cops were as they traverse the city and issue tickets. In theory, you could use that to avoid them and avoid a ticket," said Walz.

Headless browsers - the behind-the-scenes software that lets machines surf the web like people - were once the domain of quality-assurance testers and SEO agencies. But new AI-powered browsers launched this last year - like Perplexity's Comet and Browser Company of New York's Dia - are bringing new meaning to the term. These players are using headless browsers to power AI agents that need to click, scroll and interact with websites as a human would, to retrieve information.

Web scraping delivers competitive intelligence for online course providers, giving them a strategic edge in the market. This intelligence helps in building stronger courses that can sell better.

This quiz consists of seven questions that test knowledge on core concepts of web scraping using Python, focusing on Beautiful Soup and MechanicalSoup.

Targeted campaigns, effective publisher selection, and real-time optimization can drive scalable growth for crypto brands, showcasing the importance of strategic marketing in this sector.

The Machine Economy represents not just process optimization but a profound shift in the underlying forces that drive economics, as machines take more control over economic functions.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables large language models to interact with external tools and data through a standardized interface.

The easiest way to detect when a website is using Kasada is by asking it for Wappalyzer, which has a browser extension you can use while visiting a website to detect its tech stack.