Ziad is lead writer at Scrapfly blog sharing his knowledge on web scraping, data extraction and automation. He's been writing for Scrapfly since 2024 and has a background in software engineering with a focus on Python and web technologies.
Build a Documentation Chatbot That Works on ANY Website
Build an AI chatbot from any docs site using Scrapfly Crawler API, LangChain, and Streamlit. Works on Cloudflare-protected sites.
PYTHON
AI
RAG
CRAWLING
Scraper API vs Crawler API - When to Use Each for AI
Scraper API for pages, Crawler API for domains. Learn when to use each Scrapfly API for AI training, RAG applications, and web scraping at scale.
WEB-SCRAPING
TOOLS
API
AI
LangChain Web Scraping: Build AI Agents & RAG Applications
Learn to integrate LangChain with Scrapfly for web scraping. Build AI agents and RAG applications that extract, process, and understand web data at scale.
AI
PYTHON
LANGCHAIN
SCRAPING
Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026
Comprehensive guide to choosing web scraping tools for production. Learn the scraping pipeline framework and how to combine tools like Scrapfly, BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and Scrapy for reliable data extraction at scale.
PYTHON
NODEJS
WEB-SCRAPING
How to Scrape Facebook: Marketplace and Events
Complete guide to scraping Facebook data including Marketplace listings and Events. Covers authentication, anti-bot bypass, and production-ready techniques.
PYTHON
PLAYWRIGHT
SCRAPEGUIDE
Crawl4AI Explained: The AI-Friendly Web Crawling Framework
Discover Crawl4AI, the AI-friendly web crawling framework. Learn features, installation, and intelligent web scraping for LLMs.
WEB-SCRAPING
AI
PYTHON
CRAWLING
Web Scraping Services Explained
Explore web scraping services from managed APIs to self-hosted solutions. Learn use cases, pricing models, and how to choose the right data extraction service.
WEB-SCRAPING
TOOLS
Social Media Scraping in 2026
Complete guide to scraping Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn with Python. Learn anti-blocking techniques for 2026.
SCRAPEGUIDE
PYTHON
SOCIAL-MEDIA
Top Web Crawler Tools in 2026
Discover the best web crawler tools in 2026 for automated data collection. Compare Octoparse, Scrapy, and more.
TOOLS
WEB-SCRAPING
Top LangChain Alternatives in 2026
Explore the best LangChain alternatives in 2026 for building powerful AI applications. Compare features, performance, and use cases to find the right framework for your needs.
AI
LLM
LANGCHAIN
How to Scrape Naver.com
Master web scraping techniques for Naver.com, South Korea's dominant search engine.
SCRAPEGUIDE
PYTHON
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
How to Scrape Imovelweb.com
Scrape Imovelweb with Python - extract listings and details, handle pagination and JSON-LD, and use Scrapfly for anti-bot reliability.
PYTHON
SCRAPEGUIDE
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
SCRAPFLY
How to Scrape AutoScout24
Learn how to scrape AutoScout24 for car listings, prices, specifications, and detailed vehicle information using Python. Complete guide with code examples and anti-blocking techniques.
PYTHON
SCRAPEGUIDE
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
How to Scrape Allegro.pl
Learn how to scrape Allegro.pl for product listings and individual product details using Python with requests and BeautifulSoup4
PYTHON
SCRAPEGUIDE
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
How to Scrape Ticketmaster
Learn how to scrape Ticketmaster for event data including concerts, venues, dates, and ticket information using Python. Complete guide with code examples and anti-blocking techniques.
PYTHON
SCRAPEGUIDE
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
How to Scrape Mouser.com
Learn how to scrape Mouser.com electronic component data including prices, specifications, and inventory using Python. Complete guide with code examples and anti-blocking techniques.
PYTHON
SCRAPEGUIDE
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
How to Scrape Zoro.com
Learn how to scrape Zoro.com product data including prices, specifications, and inventory using Python. Complete guide with code examples and anti-blocking techniques.
PYTHON
SCRAPEGUIDE
BEAUTIFULSOUP
REQUESTS
What is a Reverse Proxy?
Learn what reverse proxies are, how they differ from forward proxies, and their critical role in web infrastructure and web scraping. A deep dive for developers.
PROXIES
Optimize Proxy Bandwidth with Image & CSS Stubbing
Reduce proxy costs by 30-50% through intelligent image and CSS stubbing techniques that eliminate unnecessary resource downloads while preserving functionality.
PROXIES
Automatic Failover Strategies for Reliable Data Extraction
A deep dive into automatic failover strategies like retries, backoff, and circuit breakers to build resilient and reliable web scrapers that can handle network errors, blocks, and other common failures.
BLOCKING
What Is a Proxy Server?
Understand what proxy servers are, how they work, and how developers can leverage them for efficient, large-scale web scraping.
PROXIES
How to Stop Wasting Money on Proxies
Learn actionable techniques to slash proxy spending in web scraping projects without sacrificing reliability or scale.
PROXIES
Advanced Proxy Connection Optimization Techniques
Master advanced proxy optimization with TCP connection pooling, TLS fingerprinting, DNS caching, and HTTP/2 multiplexing for maximum performance.
PROXIES
HTTPS vs. SOCKS Proxies
A deep dive into the key differences between HTTPS and SOCKS proxies, helping you choose the right protocol for your web scraping needs.
PROXIES
Bypass Proxy Detection with Browser Fingerprint Impersonation
Stop proxy blocks with browser fingerprint impersonation using this guide for Playwright, Selenium, curl-impersonate & Scrapfly
PROXIES
SELENIUM
PLAYWRIGHT
PUPPETEER
BLOCKING
How Caching Can Cut Your Proxy Bill by 70%
Learn how intelligent caching strategies can reduce proxy costs by 40-70%. Complete guide to bandwidth optimization and proxy management.
PROXIES
How to Optimize Webshare Proxies
Webshare is a fast-growing proxy provider offering affordable proxy solutions for various web scraping and automation tasks. Here's how to make best of it.
PROXIES
How to Optimize NetNut Proxies
Learn how to set up and optimize NetNut proxies for web scraping, including bandwidth reduction techniques and integration with Scrapfly Proxy Saver.
PROXIES
How to Optimize Oxylabs Proxies
Learn how to optimize Oxylabs proxies for efficient web scraping using Python and Scrapfly Proxy Saver. Reduce bandwidth, improve speed, and cut costs.
PROXIES
What is Rate Limiting? Everything You Need to Know
Discover what rate limiting is, why it matters, how it works, and how developers can implement it to build stable, scalable applications.
BLOCKING
CRAWLING
HTTP
How to Reduce Your Bright Data Bandwidth Usage
Learn how to reduce Bright Data proxy bandwidth usage using Python optimizations and Scrapfly Proxy Saver to cut data costs by up to 30%
PROXIES
How to Optimize Proxies
Learn how to optimize proxies for speed, anonymity, and cost. Includes comparisons of proxy vs VPN, and tips for developers using Scrapfly.
PROXIES
How to Build an MCP Server in Python: A Complete Guide
Build an MCP server in Python with tools, resources, and prompts. A beginner's guide to the model context protocol using a simple calculator example.
AI
What Is MCP? Understanding the Model Context Protocol
What is MCP? Learn how the Model Context Protocol powers tools like Copilot Studio by giving AI models access to real-time, structured context.
AI
Build a Proxy API: Rotate Proxies and Save Bandwidth
Learn to build a proxy API with Python and mitmproxy. Rotate proxies on each request, cache responses to avoid refetching, and save bandwidth.
PROXIES
API
The Best Datacenter Proxies in 2026: A Complete Guide
Explore the best datacenter proxies for 2026 including IPRoyal, shared vs dedicated options, and how to buy unlimited bandwidth proxies.
PROXIES
GPT Crawler: The AI Training Data Collection Guide
Learn how to use GPT Crawler to collect web data for AI training. A developer's guide with setup tips, configuration steps, and best practices.
AI
CRAWLING
How to Choose the Best Proxy Unblocker?
Learn how to choose the best proxy unblocker to access blocked websites. Explore proxies, VPNs, and Scrapfly for bypassing restrictions safely.
PROXIES
BLOCKING
Guide To Google Image Search API and Alternatives
Learn about Google Image Search API alternatives, including Bing API and scraping techniques. Implement image search functionality in your applications with Python code examples.
API
Guide to List Crawling: Everything You Need to Know
Complete list crawling tutorial assess site defenses, bypass anti-bot systems, choose tools (Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Scrapfly), extract data with 6 production-ready code examples, and troubleshoot common failures.
CRAWLING
BEAUTIFULSOUP
PYTHON
Guide to using JSON with cURL
Learn how to send JSON with `cURL` using files, inline data, environment variables, and `jq`. Includes real-world examples for Slack & Google Translate.
CURL
Guide to Google Scholar API and Alternatives
Learn how to access Google Scholar data without an official API. Explore alternatives and the best methods for data retrieval.
API
Best SERP APIs in 2026: Official Google Alternatives & Third-Party Providers
No official Google SERP API exists. Compare official alternatives (DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex) and third-party SERP APIs (SerpApi, Serper, DataForSEO, Scrapfly) with verified performance benchmarks and current pricing data.
SEARCH-ENGINE
SERP-API
WEB-SCRAPING
Proxy vs VPN: In-Depth Comparison
Explore the proxy vs vpn debate with insights on key differences, benefits, limitations and alternatives. Discover when to choose a proxy or VPN.
PROXIES
10 Ways to Automate Chrome Screenshots
Learn how to automate Chrome screenshots with Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, browser commands, extensions, and APIs for efficient workflows.
SCREENSHOTS
Guide to LLM Training, Fine-Tuning, and RAG
Explore LLM training, fine-tuning, and RAG. Learn how to leverage pre-trained models for custom tasks and real-time knowledge retrieval.
AI
Guide to Understanding and Developing LLM Agents
Explore how LLM agents transform AI, from text generators into dynamic decision-makers with tools like LangChain for automation, analysis & more!
AI
Guide to Google Jobs API and Alternatives
Explore Google Jobs API alternatives like structured data, web scraping, and third-party job APIs to integrate job listings.
API
What is Googlebot User Agent String?
Learn about Googlebot user agents, how to verify them, block unwanted crawlers, and optimize your site for better indexing and SEO performance.
CRAWLING
SEARCH-ENGINE
SEO
How to Find All URLs on a Domain
Learn how to efficiently find all URLs on a domain using Python and web crawling. Guide on how to crawl entire domain to collect all website data
CRAWLING
PYTHON
Alternatives to Cloudscraper to Bypass Cloudflare
Learn why Cloudscraper is outdated and explore modern alternatives for bypassing Cloudflare protections effectively and ethically.
BLOCKING
How to Capture and Convert a Screenshot to PDF
Quick guide on how to effectively capture web screenshots as PDF documents
SCREENSHOTS
PYTHON
NODEJS
Playwright Examples for Web Scraping and Automation
Learn Playwright with Python and JavaScript examples for automating browsers like Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox.
PLAYWRIGHT
PYTHON
NODEJS
Web Scraping with Playwright and JavaScript
Learn about Playwright - a browser automation toolkit for server side Javascript like NodeJS, Deno or Bun.
PLAYWRIGHT
HEADLESS-BROWSER
NODEJS
How to Retry in Axios
Learn how to enhance Axios with retry logic using interceptors or `axios-retry` to automatically handle failed requests.
AXIOS
How to use wget in Python
Learn how to use wget in Python through subprocess calls and what are other options.
PYTHON
Ultimate Guide to JSON Parsing in Python
Learn JSON parsing in Python with this ultimate guide. Explore basic and advanced techniques using json, and tools like ijson and nested-lookup
DATA-PARSING
PYTHON
Guide to Axios Headers
Learn about Javascript's Axios headers. How to configure, update, inspect headers in request and responses, how to set defaults and useful tips
HTTP
NODEJS
Guide to Parsel - the Best HTML Parsing in Python
Learn to extract data from websites with Parsel, a Python library for HTML parsing using CSS selectors and XPath.
DATA-PARSING
PARSEL
What is HTTP 401 Error and How to Fix it
Discover the HTTP 401 error meaning, its causes, and solutions in this comprehensive guide. Learn how 401 unauthorized errors occur.
HTTP
JSONL vs JSON
Learn the differences between JSON and JSONLines, their use cases, and efficiency. Why JSONLines excels in web scraping and real-time processing
DATA-PARSING
Guide to SeleniumBase — A Better & Easier Selenium
SeleniumBase streamlines browser automation with simple syntax, cross-browser support, and robust features, perfect for testing and web scraping.
SELENIUM
HEADLESS-BROWSER
Guide to PHP 8.4 new DOM Selector Feature
Learn about PHP 8.4’s new DOM Selector feature. Simplify DOM manipulation using intuitive CSS selectors for cleaner, more efficient code.
PHP
How to Ignore cURL SSL Errors
Learn to handle SSL errors in cURL, including using self-signed certificates. Explore common issues, safe practices.
CURL
SSL
What is HTTP 407 Status Code and How to Fix it
Learn everything about the HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required error. Understand its causes, including misconfigured proxies
HTTP
Guide to Cloudflare's Error Code 520 and How to Fix it
Quick look at error code 520, what does it mean, its common causes, and how it can be prevented.
HTTP
Guide to Google News API and Alternatives
Discover how to access Google News after the discontinuation of the Google News API. Explore alternative APIs for extracting insights from news.
API
Guide to SSL Errors: What do they mean and how to fix them
Overview of SSL errors - what are they, what are common issues and how to resolve them.
HTTP
SSL
Guide to Google Finance API and Alternatives
Guide to Google Finance data and discontinued Google Finance API alternatives and a secret API.
API
Guide to LinkedIn API and Alternatives
Explore the LinkedIn API, covering data endpoints, usage limitations, and accessibility.
API
Guide to Yahoo Finance API
Explore what Yahoo Finance is and how to scrape it, and other tools for accessing stock data and financial news.
API
In-Depth Guide to the Walmart API
Discover Walmart's robust API ecosystem, designed to streamline operations for sellers, suppliers, and partners. This comprehensive guide explores key Walmart APIs
API
ECOMMERCE
Guide to Python requests POST method
Discover how to use Python's requests library for POST requests, including JSON, form data, and file uploads, along with response handling tips.
PYTHON
REQUESTS
HTTP
Guide to Python Requests Headers
Our guide to request headers for Python requests library. How to configure and what do they mean.
PYTHON
REQUESTS
HTTP
cURL vs Wget: Key Differences Explained
curl and wget are both popular terminal tools but often used for different tasks - let's take a look at the differences.
CURL
HTTP
TOOLS
Playwright vs Selenium
Explore the key differences between Playwright vs Selenium in terms of performance, web scraping, and automation testing for modern web applications.
HEADLESS-BROWSER
PLAYWRIGHT
SELENIUM
What is Parsing? From Raw Data to Insights
Learn about the fundamentals of parsing data, across formats like JSON, XML, HTML, and PDFs. Learn how to use Python parsers and AI models for efficient data extraction.
DATA-PARSING
PYTHON
AI
Concurrency vs Parallelism
Learn the key differences between Concurrency and Parallelism and how to leverage them in Python and JavaScript to optimize performance in various computational tasks.
SCALING
NODEJS
PYTHON
5 Proven Ways to Bypass CAPTCHA in Python
Captchas can ruin web scrapers but we don't have to teach our robots how to solve them - we can just get around it all!
BLOCKING
How to Scrape Realestate.com.au Property Listing Data
We're taking yet another look at real estate websites. This time we're going down under! Realtestate.com.au is the biggest real estate portal in Australia and let's take a look at how to scrape it.
PYTHON
REAL-ESTATE
SCRAPEGUIDE
Web Scraping Emails using Python
In this tutorial we'll take a look at email scraping. How to crawl pages and extract email addresses using Python and what are some popular challenges.
PYTHON
DATA-PARSING
PROJECT
How to Scrape Nordstrom Fashion Product Data
In this guide we'll be taking a look at scraping Nordstrom.com - one of the biggest fashion e-commerce shops. We'll be using hidden web data scraping and Python.
SCRAPEGUIDE
FASHION
ECOMMERCE
PYTHON
