https://scrapfly.io/blog 2026-09-18T08:26:09+00:00 Scrapfly Web scraping tutorials, guides, and articles by Scrapfly https://scrapfly.io/img/scrapfly-logo.png https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-twitter-scrapers-github 2026-09-17T14:12:01+00:00 2026-09-17T14:12:02+00:00

Four surviving X scraper repositories compared by coverage, account requirements, maintenance, and infrastructure burden, plus why older projects died.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-financial-data-apis 2026-09-17T13:44:40+00:00 2026-09-17T13:44:40+00:00

Eight financial data APIs compared by workload, delivery method, history depth, entitlement, and what the licence actually lets you redistribute.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-bypass-f5-when-web-scraping 2026-09-17T13:33:02+00:00 2026-09-17T13:33:05+00:00

Tell BIG-IP Bot Defense from F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, inspect its browser telemetry, and configure a browser-backed fetch.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-local-business-data-apis 2026-09-16T17:14:26+00:00 2026-09-16T17:14:28+00:00

Six local business data APIs compared by data model and access, from platform place search and reviews to open map data and geographic context.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-social-media-data-apis 2026-09-16T17:08:01+00:00 2026-09-16T17:08:03+00:00

Compare eight official social media APIs across posts, video, communities, research, professional data, and federated networks.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-csharp-web-scraping-libraries 2026-09-16T17:06:46+00:00 2026-09-16T17:06:48+00:00

A workflow based comparison of seven C# web scraping libraries across three layers, covering HTML parsing with Html Agility Pack and AngleSharp, browser automation with Playwright for .NET, Selenium, and PuppeteerSharp, and crawl orchestration with Abot and DotnetSpider.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/htmlagilitypack-vs-anglesharp 2026-09-11T20:35:21+00:00 2026-09-11T20:35:22+00:00

A fixture based comparison of Html Agility Pack and AngleSharp for C# HTML parsing, covering XPath versus CSS selectors, malformed markup, DOM behavior, and when each parser fits a project.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-dhl 2026-09-11T20:32:31+00:00 2026-09-11T20:32:32+00:00

A practical guide to scraping DHL parcel tracking status and shipment events in Python, covering Track & Trace page inspection, JSON/XHR discovery, response classification, event normalization, and the official tracking API.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-goibibo-hotel-and-flight-prices 2026-09-11T20:26:46+00:00 2026-09-11T20:26:47+00:00

Learn how to scrape Goibibo hotel and flight prices with Python in 2026. Use Scrapfly ASP, India geo-targeting, and browser sessions to capture and parse structured hotel and flight responses.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-amazon-scrapers-github 2026-09-11T20:17:58+00:00 2026-09-11T20:17:59+00:00

Five Amazon scraper repos on GitHub compared with rechecked stars, commit dates, licenses, code paths, and live failure modes.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/chrome-cdp-stealth-browser-automation-detection-explained 2026-09-11T20:05:00+00:00 2026-09-11T20:05:00+00:00

Chrome CDP is not stealth by itself. Learn how CDP, WebDriver, Playwright, Puppeteer, nodriver, Camoufox, and cloud browsers affect detection.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/google-trends-api-alternatives 2026-09-11T19:48:15+00:00 2026-09-11T19:48:16+00:00

Google shipped an official Trends API in alpha. Here's what it covers, its limits, and when pytrends or a managed scraper still fits better.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-real-estate-data-apis 2026-09-11T19:42:45+00:00 2026-09-11T19:42:46+00:00

Six real estate data APIs compared by property-data job, from listings and property facts to valuations, parcels, zoning, and neighborhood scores, plus guidance on when scraping a public portal is the better route.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-ecommerce-product-data-apis 2026-09-11T19:39:10+00:00 2026-09-11T19:39:11+00:00

Seven e-commerce product data APIs compared by access model, from storefront catalogs and marketplace listings to seller-only operations feeds.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/scrapy-error-messages 2026-09-11T19:33:32+00:00 2026-09-11T19:33:33+00:00

A lookup catalog of Scrapy error messages. Each entry pairs the exact string with the layer that emitted it, one diagnostic check, the smallest fix, and the version boundary that matters, so you can stop copying answers written for older Scrapy.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-xpath-css-selector-tools 2026-09-11T19:23:12+00:00 2026-09-11T19:23:12+00:00

Compare seven XPath and CSS selector tools for testing selectors, reading live DOMs, generating locators, and recording browser flows.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-capterra 2026-09-11T15:19:03+00:00 2026-09-11T15:19:06+00:00

Learn how to scrape Capterra software reviews and listings using Python and Scrapfly, bypassing Cloudflare Bot Management with ASP and render_js, and extracting ratings, pros/cons, reviewer metadata, and category data with stable selectors.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-javascript-web-scraping-libraries 2026-09-07T18:45:46+00:00 2026-09-07T18:45:48+00:00

A layer-by-layer ranking of the 8 JavaScript and Node.js libraries worth composing into a scraper in 2026, from HTTP clients and parsers to headless browsers and the Crawlee framework.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-scrapy-extensions-middlewares 2026-08-31T14:27:19+00:00 2026-09-10T15:47:58+00:00

Nine Scrapy extensions tested against Scrapy 2.18, covering rendering, TLS fingerprints, proxies, extraction, shared queues, and deployment.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/why-scrapy-spider-gets-blocked 2026-08-31T14:26:48+00:00 2026-08-31T14:26:51+00:00

Diagnostic walkthrough for a blocked Scrapy spider, covering IP reputation, rate shape, cookie and session state, header order, TLS/JA3, HTTP/2, JavaScript challenges, behavioral signals, and CAPTCHA, each with evidence, a cheapest test, a native Scrapy control, and its ceiling.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-e-commerce-web-scraping-tools 2026-08-27T23:37:02+00:00 2026-08-27T23:37:04+00:00

Retrieval, access, extraction, discovery, browser, or screenshots? Pick the narrowest e-commerce scraping tool that fixes your broken layer in 2026.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-web-scraping-tools-for-real-estate 2026-08-27T23:35:53+00:00 2026-09-07T13:51:38+00:00

Which real estate scraping tool returns the output you are missing? Compare 6 by job in 2026: page HTML, structured JSON, listing URLs, images, parser source.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-open-source-youtube-scrapers 2026-08-24T15:09:46+00:00 2026-08-24T15:09:47+00:00

Six open-source YouTube scrapers ranked by job, with an August 11, 2026 GitHub snapshot and two projects that failed in our tests.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-open-source-job-scrapers 2026-08-24T15:09:10+00:00 2026-08-24T15:09:11+00:00

Three open-source job scrapers ranked by board coverage, schema, and dated maintenance, plus a source-available Scrapfly managed alternative.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-target-com 2026-08-24T15:03:54+00:00 2026-08-27T04:47:41+00:00

Extract Target.com product and pricing data from the internal Redsky API in 2026, handle store-keyed prices, and get past Target's PerimeterX bot defense.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/python-web-scraping-projects-from-beginner-to-advanced 2026-08-24T15:03:14+00:00 2026-09-01T21:33:13+00:00

12 Python web scraping projects laddered from static HTML to Scrapy crawls and AI agents, each with skills, a data source, and a build guide.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-skyscanner 2026-08-14T23:51:16+00:00 2026-08-14T23:51:18+00:00

Learn how to scrape Skyscanner flight results in Python by building deep-link URLs, rendering the search, and capturing the itinerary JSON the page loads.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-airbnb 2026-08-14T23:45:25+00:00 2026-08-14T23:45:26+00:00

Scrape Airbnb search results, listing details, fee-inclusive prices, guest reviews, and availability calendars with Python and Scrapfly.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/best-linkedin-scrapers-github 2026-08-14T21:58:23+00:00 2026-08-14T21:58:25+00:00

Five open-source LinkedIn scraper repos on GitHub ranked by auth model, dated maintenance and honest ban risk, with live August 2026 numbers.

https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-scrape-lowe 2026-08-13T21:42:28+00:00 2026-09-08T13:33:05+00:00

Scrape Lowe's product and pricing data from embedded page state, discover products and stores, and handle Akamai with Scrapfly's maintained Python scraper.