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Use Cases

Cross-Country Ecommerce Price Monitoring: How to Get and Prove Local Prices

Proxies alone don't get you local prices. How stores pick the market, how to prove each price's country and currency, and what cross-country checks cost.

October 7, 2026 · 20 min read

Scraping Techniques

The Crawl Frontier: Redis, SQS and Kafka for URL Queues

Oct 7, 2026 · 8 min read

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Scraping Techniques

Scraper API vs. Scraping Browser: When to Use Each One

Sep 28, 2026 · 23 min read

Designing Crawler Egress: NAT Gateways, Proxy Pools and Per-Worker IPs

Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min read

Access Challenges

reCAPTCHA v2, v3 and Enterprise: How Google Scores a Visitor

Sep 23, 2026 · 8 min read

Access Challenges

How DataDome Works: Real-Time Scoring at the Edge

Sep 21, 2026 · 9 min read

Scraping Techniques

Screen, Viewport and devicePixelRatio: The Geometry That Does Not Add Up

Sep 16, 2026 · 7 min read

Scraping Techniques

Timezone, Locale and Your Exit IP: The Cheapest Contradiction to Ship

Sep 15, 2026 · 7 min read

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Coding Tutorials

Monitor website changes in Python without false alerts

Sep 14, 2026 · 41 min read

Scraping Techniques

Sec-CH-UA, User-Agent and navigator: Three Places You Declare the Same Identity

Sep 11, 2026 · 7 min read

Scraping Techniques

navigator.webdriver and the Traces a Driven Browser Leaves

Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min read

hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn: What the Case Actually Settled About Public Data

Sep 7, 2026 · 7 min read

Proxy Fundamentals

Pay Per Crawl and the Licensed Web: When Access Becomes a Transaction

Aug 26, 2026 · 8 min read

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