Articles by Ziad Shamndy

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

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

How to Stop Wasting Money on Proxies

Learn actionable techniques to slash proxy spending in web scraping projects without sacrificing reliability or scale.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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 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 2025: A Complete Guide

Explore the best datacenter proxies for 2025 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

In-depth look at list crawling - how to extract valuable data from list-formatted content like tables, listicles and paginated pages.

CRAWLING

BEAUTIFULSOUP

PYTHON

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

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

Official Google SERP API? And Alternatives

Discover whether an official Google SERP API exists and explore alternative APIs like Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Brave for your search need

SEARCH-ENGINE

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

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

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

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