Web scraping is a topic in which I am deeply interested. I have completed numerous successful web scraping projects and have launched several products in this field. Most of these projects were developed using Node.js, Puppeteer, cURL, and Playwright.
Introduction As a seasoned developer with a keen interest in web scraping and data extraction, I've often leveraged Python for its simplicity and power. In this realm, understanding and utilizing proxies becomes a necessity, especially to navigate through the complexities of web requests, IP bans, and rate limiting. In this
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
When diving into the world of automated browser testing and scraping with Playwright, one of the first decisions you'll encounter is the choice of programming language. Playwright is not a one-language wonder; it caters to a polyglot audience. Let's see how Node.js and Python version of Playwright compare. A
Blocking unnecessary resources in Playwright is a pretty easy task, thanks to builtin route() function.
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
Once you're familiar with basic web scraping tools like Scrapy, and you've scraped your first 1-2 websites, you'll probably get your first ban because your IP address has made too many requests (what "too many" means really depends on the site, for one site it's just 3 requests per hour,
