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Public Sector Meets Web Scraping: From Scraped Data to Public Value

Using web scraping to fuel data pipelines that provide value to citizens and policymakers

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THE LAB #1: Scraping data from an app

Sep 4, 2022 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #3: Scraping Cloudflare protected websites

Sep 27, 2022 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #73: How to Bypass Cloudflare in 2025

Jan 23, 2025 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Ten years of web scraping: a personal perspective about selling web data

Mar 24, 2024 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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NetNut: The Fastest & Most Reliable Proxy Network for Web Scrapers

Meet the Platinum Partner of The Web Scraping Club

Feb 6, 2025 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

The Great Web Unblocker Benchmark - Cloudflare Edition

Testing different web unblockers against Indeed.com

Sep 22, 2024 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

The Web Unblocker Cost Benchmark

Price comparison between the most well-known web unblockers on the market

Dec 24, 2023 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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THE LAB #108: How LLMs and Manus AI are transforming bot detection

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Let’s build an AI agent in Python for research paper scraping and analysis.

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Using NLP for Entity Extraction From Scraped Data

From theory to practice: how to extract entities from textual scraped data using NLP

Dec 7, 2025 • Federico Trotta

Using AI to Detect Patterns in Scraped Data

A practical guide on finding patterns in scraped data with advanced techniques

Nov 23, 2025 • Federico Trotta

When Browsers Start to Think: ChatGPT Atlas, Stagehand, Cursor, and the Future of Web Scraping

How recent browser integrations with LLMs are changing the way we explore and scrape the web.

Nov 2, 2025 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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