Insights from the people who scrape the web at scale
AMA insights, proxy benchmarks and analysis of the economics behind getting web data at scale.
Bypassing DataDome, Akamai, Incapsula and Kasada: Lessons From a Reverse Engineer
Hyper Solutions' founder on reverse engineering DataDome, Akamai, Incapsula and Kasada, and what it takes to keep a bypass working at scale.
Insight Articles
Data-driven analysis of proxy pricing, performance and the cost of scraping.
What Is the Best Proxy Provider? The Data Says There Isn't One.
There is no universal best proxy provider. Benchmark data shows price barely predicts performance, and the winner changes by site and volume. The only way to find the best provider is to measure your own workload.
Scraping Shock: Why Web Data Is Getting Too Expensive to Scrape
Scraping Shock is reshaping web scraping economics. As proxies get cheaper, successful scraping gets more expensive. Learn why web data is getting too expensive to scrape.
The Proxy Paradox - How Cheaper Proxies Are Making Web Scraping More Expensive
How web scraping got harder, even as proxies got cheaper. The Proxy Paradox is reshaping the economics of web scraping.
The State of Web Scraping 2022
What are the biggest trends and developments in web scraping? What does 2022, likely have in store for web scraping?
AMA Insights
What scraping teams, proxy providers and tool builders told the community, organised by topic.
Is Web Scraping Legal? 9 Practical Lessons from Internet Law Professor Eric Goldman
An internet law professor explains how the CFAA, contracts, copyright and DMCA 1201 shape real scraping decisions about accounts, suppliers and data.
Why Diagnosis Beats More Stealth: Lessons From 7 Years of Reverse Engineering Anti-Bot Systems
Why diagnosing blocks, keeping sessions consistent and choosing complexity carefully beat adding stealth, from 7 years of reverse engineering anti-bots.
Inside a Web Scraping API Processing 10 Billion Pages a Month: What Actually Keeps the Data Flowing?
Why Scrape.do skips the browser on most requests, maintains sessions for hard targets, and worries most about responses that look fine but miss data.
Web Scraping Isn't a Proxy Problem Anymore
Inside the target-specific reputation, session management, browser identity and capacity economics that decide whether a scraper actually works.
Why There Is No Best Proxy Provider (And What You Are Actually Paying For)
Billions of requests through 50+ proxy providers show why the best provider changes by website, page type and volume, and what you are really paying for.
Your Browser Can Look Real and Still Look Fake
Inside the fingerprint populations, IP reputation, black-box testing and maintenance burden that decide whether a stealth browser survives production.
The Hardest Part of a Browser Agent Isn't Browsing. It's Knowing It Worked.
Inside the persistent identity, moving-target stealth and verification problems that decide whether a browser agent's actions ever add up to a finished task.
AI Isn't Replacing Scraper Engineering. It's Moving It.
Inside the silent data failures, session trust limits, browser-context execution and repair boundaries that decide if an AI-built scraper survives production.
Why Your "Perfect" Browser Fingerprint Still Gets Blocked
Why scraper detection is no longer about one bad fingerprint, but whether your fingerprint, IP, cookies and session behavior keep describing the same believable browser.
What Proxy Providers Don't Tell You About Residential Proxies
Inside the shared supply, real-time filtering and misleading metrics that determine whether a residential proxy network actually performs.
ScrapeOps News
Product launches, announcements and updates across ScrapeOps.
LaunchProxy Benchmark is live on Product Hunt
Compare proxy providers with real-world benchmarks and find the best proxy for your use case.
View on Product Hunt →ProductClaude Code plugin for the AI Scraper Builder
Run /generate-scraper, /fix-scraper and /generate-crawler-scraper without leaving your editor.
Install from GitHub →Product updatesParser API product updates
New parsers and page types for ecommerce, real estate, job portals and search engines.
See all updates →LaunchScrapeOps - Job Monitoring, Alerts & Scheduling For Web Scrapers Made Simple!
Announcing the launch of ScrapeOps, a web scraping extension that gives you all the scraping monitoring, alerting, scheduling and data validation you need straight out of the box.
Read article →LaunchLaunching The ScrapeOps Beta
The ScrapeOps public beta is live, after months of refinement with alpha users.
Read article →Proxy economics, anti-bot news and AMA recaps
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