Archive - The Web Scraping Club

THE LAB #100: Hybrid Scraping - One Browser Login, Thousands of HTTP Requests

Building a pipeline that uses Camoufox for authentication and curl_cffi for extraction on Akamai-protected targets.

Mar 19 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Stop Getting Blocked: Upgrade Your Scraping Infrastructure with Dolphin{anty}

My review of Dolphin{anty}. Weighing the pros, cons, and unique capabilities of this anti-detect browser.

Mar 15 • Federico Trotta

The DMCA Was Built to Stop DVD Piracy. Google Wants to Use It Against Scrapers

How a 12-page complaint is trying to turn every CAPTCHA into a federal copyright perimeter

Mar 8 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #99: HTTP Caching for Web Scraping

How Conditional Requests Can Cut Your Proxy Bill, using HTTP caching.

Mar 5 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

Kadoa: Simplify Your Scraping Workflows with Automation and AI

My review of Kadoa: An AI-powered tool that lets you create scraping workflows in minutes

Mar 1 • Federico Trotta

February 2026

Why LLM-Ready Scrapers Return Content in Markdown: A Deep Dive

Why do all AI-ready scraping solutions produce Markdown results? Let’s find out!

Feb 22 • Antonello Zanini

THE LAB #98: Scraping Google Search Results in 2026: Device, Location, and Identity

Google does not have one set of results. It has millions. The hard part is knowing which one you are looking at.

Feb 19 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

How to Avoid Copyright Violations While Scraping

Discover how copyright violations can occur in web scraping and how to avoid them

Feb 15 • Federico Trotta

Google vs IPIDEA: Anatomy of a Residential Proxy Takedown

Google Took Down 16 Million Proxy IPs. Here is Why It Will Not Be Enough.

Feb 8 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #97: My first week with OpenClaw

160,000 Stars in Two Months: What OpenClaw Means for Scrapers

Feb 5 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

WebDriver vs Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) vs WebDriver BiDi: How We Control Browsers

Do you know how browser automation libraries actually manage to control browsers? Let’s find out!

Feb 1 • Antonello Zanini

January 2026

THE LAB #96: Scraping Nike.com with 5 open source tools

Match your tool to the protection, not the brand

Jan 29 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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