Web scraping guides & tutorials
Practical guides, honest comparisons and working code for getting data out of websites, search engines, marketplaces and social platforms.
Best TikTok Data APIs in 2026: Pricing, Coverage and Honest Trade-offs
Per call, per result or per daily unit: what TikTok data really costs from seven providers, what each covers, and how to test them before you buy.
Oct 3, 2026 · 14 min read
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Amazon Scraping API: The Complete Guide to Product Data and Price Tracking
Search, shortlist and enrich by ASIN, rank by category, and monitor prices and the buy box, with runnable code, a field reference and the cost math.
Mar 24, 2026 · 13 min read
Using a ChatGPT API in Production: Prompts, Reliable JSON, Retries and Cost
Prompt design, JSON validation with one repair retry, retries and idempotency, caching, evaluation and privacy, with Python and Node code.
Mar 20, 2026 · 16 min read
Best Web Scraping APIs in 2026: Pricing, Features and Honest Trade-offs
ScrapingBot, ScraperAPI, ZenRows, Zyte, Bright Data, Oxylabs, Apify and Firecrawl: cost per 1,000 requests, features, limits and who should pick what.
Mar 8, 2026 · 16 min read
Web Scraping Challenges in 2026: How to Recognize and Fix Each One
The obstacles that break scrapers in 2026, from CAPTCHAs and 403s to JA4 fingerprints and layout drift, with signals, fixes and tested Python and Node code.
Feb 5, 2025 · 17 min read
Instagram Scraping API: How to Get Profiles, Posts, Reels and Comments
Profiles by username or ID, posts, reels, tagged posts, comments, search and shortcode conversion, with one script that handles all three pagination styles.
Jan 26, 2025 · 14 min read
TikTok Scraping API: How to Get Videos, Profiles, Feeds and Comments
Videos and download links, profiles, full creator feeds, sounds, comments and search, with runnable code that pages through a feed without missing videos.
Jan 25, 2025 · 15 min read
Datacenter vs Residential vs Mobile Proxies: How to Choose, Test and Budget
Datacenter, ISP, residential and mobile proxies compared: how sites detect each, a decision table by target, per-GB vs per-request cost math and a pool tester.
Jan 20, 2025 · 17 min read
How to Scrape Google Search Results Without Getting Blocked
Get Google results as JSON by country, language and date, page past the first 10 correctly, and track rankings daily with runnable code.
Jan 15, 2025 · 11 min read