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May 2025

THE LAB #85: Bypass Akamai Bot Protection by Chaining Proxies
How JA3Proxy and residential proxies can help us bypassing Akamai
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Pierluigi Vinciguerra
1
The Unit Economics of Proxy Providers
Inside the proxy industry: Sky-high markups, razor-thin margins, and cutthroat competition
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Abed
4
Scraping Through Tor for Increased Anonymity
Learn how to route your web scraping requests through a local Tor SOCKS proxy to get free IP rotation and enhanced anonymity.
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Antonello Zanini
THE LAB #84: AI-Driven Web Scraping: OpenAI Codex vs Cursor vs AI Scraping Tools
Is OpenAI Codex the new silver bullet for scraping?
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Pierluigi Vinciguerra
Stuck? More of the Same Won’t Do
A managerial framework for when data stops flowing
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Andrea Squatrito
The Framework That Won't Quit: Scrapy's Continued Relevance in Data Extraction
Mature, not obsolete: making the case for Scrapy in the modern web scraping environment.
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Federico Trotta
1
THE LAB #83: Camoufox as a containerized server
Upgrade your scraping tech stack with Camoufox server and scale its deployment
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Pierluigi Vinciguerra
2
Scraping Historical Data From the Wayback Machine
How to programmatically retrieve historical internet data from the Wayback Machine
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Antonello Zanini
4
Optimizing Python Scripts for High-Traffic Websites
Tools and libraries for improving your scraper's requests per second.
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Federico Trotta
2
THE LAB #82: How to scrape Vinted using its internal APIs
Why analyzing both app and websites is key for a successful web scraping project
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Pierluigi Vinciguerra
1

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