The Lab

THE LAB #102: How Fast Can You Call Polymarket's APIs?

Three languages, four locations, 1,000 requests. The biggest speed gain has nothing to do with code.

Apr 16 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #101: Building an Internal Knowledge Base for Your Scraping Team

Every scraping team that survives long enough develops the same disease.

Apr 2 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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

THE LAB #99: HTTP Caching for Web Scraping

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

Mar 5 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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

THE LAB #97: My first week with OpenClaw

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

Feb 5 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

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

Match your tool to the protection, not the brand

Jan 29 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #95: Bypassing Cloudflare in 2026

Testing Open Source Browser Automation Tools Against Real Targets

Jan 22 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #94: Using cookies and session for cost-effective scraping

Trying to scrape from Leboncoin, Allegro and Idealista without emptying our pockets.

Oct 17, 2025 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #93: scraping Booking.com using internal APIs

How to get travel data without a browser

Sep 19, 2025 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #92: scraping Depop in a cost-effective way

Delegate or in house solution? A cost-wise perspective.

Aug 29, 2025 • Pierluigi Vinciguerra

THE LAB #91: Performing sentiment analysis on Amazon product reviews - Part #2

A Practical Guide to Sentiment Analysis on Data Scraped From Amazon

Aug 14, 2025 • Federico Trotta

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