I extensively use AI tools for coding - primarily Claude Sonnet 3.5 in VS Code Copilot and the OpenAI ChatGPT macOS app (using the 01 and 40 models) as of December 2024. While these tools, which felt groundbreaking just months ago, have become an integral part of my daily
In this article I will describe how to set a proxy in Playwright (Node.js version of Playwright). Playwright is obviously one of the best and most modern solutions to automate browsers in 2024. It uses the CDP protocol to send commands to browsers and supports Chromium, Chrome and Firefox
In the ever-evolving world of web scraping, I often come across hurdles that require creative solutions and some quick code workarounds and hacks - and oh boy! this is especially true when I am working with programmatically driven browsers, which I happen to do a lot lately. Today, I'd like
Puppeteer is an incredibly useful tool for automating web browsers. It allows to run headless (or non-headless) Chrome instances, automatically interacting with websites and pages in ways that would normally require manual input from a user or other scripts. In a lot of cases (particularly in web scraping tasks) it
Executing http(s) request via proxy might be helpful in a lot of cases, this helps to make your http request look like it was executed from a different country or location. Setting proxy in node-fetch Node.js package is not simple as in Axios (where we can set a
There is a number of ways to perform web requests in Node.js: node-fetch, axios, got, superagent Node.js can perform HTTP requests without additional packages While I don't ever use this approach because of it's poor developer ergonomics (using EventEmitter to collect the response data is just too verbose
