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Yazan Sharawi on Aug 9, 2026For authorized Amazon data collection, rotating residential proxies are usually the best starting point. Use sticky sessions when a worker must preserve a marketplace, delivery destination, cookies, variant, or seller-offer flow.
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Zeid Abughazaleh on Jan 30, 2025The Bluesky user count has surged past 43 million registered users as of early 2026, up from 25.9 million at the end of 2024. The platform added roughly 15.5 million users across 2025 alone, a 60% year-over-year increase confirmed by Bluesky’s own transparency report, and continues to pull in an estimated 1.6 million new users per month.
Read postYazan Sharawi on Jan 24, 2025Developers are always looking for the best tools for the job. Nowadays the internet is full of resources and libraries that you can use to optimise your work. Unfortunately, in our enthusiasm to try the latest tools and technologies, devs can jump the gun. Many tools will be still in early stages or still not mature enough to handle complex use cases, which leaves us disappointed.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Jan 21, 2025Scrapy Playwright is a library that adds JavaScript rendering to Scrapy. It allows users to instruct a headless browser to scrape dynamic web pages and simulate human behavior to reduce getting spiders blocked. Scrapy is used as a web scraping library with comprehensive architecture support for common web scraping processes. Despite its power, it does lack JavaScript rendering. This is where Playwright comes in. This tutorial will explain how to set up and install Scrapy Playwright and how and why to use proxies with your setup.
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Omar Rifai on Jan 17, 2025Proxy servers — whether used for web scraping, online security, or bypassing geo-restricted content — come in a variety of forms. The three primary types of proxies that dominate the market are datacenter proxies, residential proxies, and mobile proxies. Each of these sources its IP addresses differently, which in turn influences pricing, detection risk, speeds, location targeting, and how “authentic” the IP appears.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Jan 7, 2025Image scraping automates the entire process of collecting images online as you can collect thousands of images and save time while reducing mistakes. The process works well once you understand key elements like URL handling, file processing, and source code manipulation.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Dec 27, 2024Python’s requests library should simplify making HTTP requests but occasionally, it could fail to retrieve the needed data because of an error. This article will explore the most common errors that come up with Python requests and provide some advice on how to create Python requests retry mechanisms. Two of the most common ways are through using Sessions and HTTPAdapter or by using a retry logic wrapper. We will present both options along with some handy code snippets to help you with your tasks.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Dec 25, 2024TL;DR: MAP monitoring tracks advertised product prices against minimum advertised price rules across retailer sites and marketplaces.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Dec 20, 2024Choosing between Puppeteer vs Selenium should be a straightforward concept but there are various things to keep in mind before blindly picking one over the other. They are both well-known open-source tools that are mainly used for browser automation and testing. While Puppeteer is a newer addition to the programming world, it has gained appreciation from developers due to its useful features and great performance. Selenium on the other hand has existed since 2004 and remains an industry leader in automation and offering support for multiple programming languages and platforms. This article aims to compare Puppeteer vs Selenium by looking at their installation and general differences before answering the question of Puppeteer vs Selenium.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Dec 19, 2024Screen scraping extracts data from what’s visually rendered on a screen rather than from the underlying source code. Web scraping sends an HTTP request and parses the raw HTML or JSON that comes back. Screen scraping goes further: it loads the page in a browser, lets everything render (JavaScript, AJAX calls, dynamic components, all of it), and then pulls data from the result. What you see on screen is what it collects.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Dec 13, 2024Businesses often use data mining as a way to predict customer behavior, optimize marketing campaigns, and identify any bottlenecks. They generate massive amounts of data through daily transactions, customer experience interactions, and operational processes. However, only about 12% of this data is properly analyzed to create meaningful insights. Data mining closes this gap through algorithms and statistical methods that find the hidden patterns in larger datasets. Through a combination of machine learning, AI, and statistical analysis, businesses can turn the raw data into business intelligence. This article will explain data mining’s development, core methodologies, and practical applications. You will learn about essential tools and find ways to measure your mining projects’ success.
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