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Web Scraping with cURL (A Comprehensive Guide)
TL;DR cURL scraping basics: GET / POST , custom headers, cookies, Basic Auth , proxies. At scale you’ll hit blocks — use rotating proxies or a scraping…
Dec 1, 2024 7 min readBuild A ZoomInfo Scraper using Python
TL;DR Python how-to: scrape a ZoomInfo company page with requests + BeautifulSoup . Pull company name, industry, employees, HQ, website, social links…
Dec 1, 2024 9 min readHow to Scrape Instagram using Python
TL;DR Python guide: scrape public Instagram profiles (no login)—bio, followers/following, posts, profile pic. requests + JSON endpoint from the Network…
Nov 29, 2024 15 min readCreate A Keyword Rank Tracker with Google Sheets (Automate Daily Tracking)
If you manage an agency or are a freelancer, you’ll likely need a way to automate the process of keywords tracking and get periodic reports for the SEO…
Nov 27, 2024 9 min readWeb Scraping with R (using rvest) & Saving Data in CSV
TL;DR R guide using rvest + dplyr to scrape IMDb (title, year, rating, synopsis) into a data frame and save CSV. Then visit each movie’s page to collect…
Nov 22, 2024 14 min readNode-Unblocker for Web Scraping (Comprehensive Tutorial)
TL;DR Node-Unblocker : Node.js proxy middleware for Express that routes scraping traffic via a proxy; good for basic logins / AJAX, not Google / Facebook.…
Nov 15, 2024 9 min readWeb Scraping Amazon Reviews using Python
TL;DR Amazon now gates reviews behind login; this guide uses Scrapingdog’s Amazon Reviews API to scrape at scale. Python ( requests ) returns JSON ( user…
Nov 14, 2024 5 min read7 Challenges in Large Scale Web Scraping & How To Overcome Them
TL;DR Big blockers at scale: CAPTCHAs, IP bans / geo, JS-rendered pages, layout shifts, honeypots, dirty data, auth. Fixes: residential proxies + real…
Nov 12, 2024 7 min readScrape Google Ads Data using Python
TL;DR Python guide to scrape Google Ads with Scrapingdog’s Google Search API . Use cases: track competitors, monitor PPC, analyze messaging and placement.…
Nov 11, 2024 10 min readBuild Amazon Price Tracker using Python (Get Email Alerts on Price Drop)
TL;DR Build a Python price tracker for Amazon using Scrapingdog’s Amazon Scraper (free 1,000 credits). Fetch current price with requests , parse JSON, and…
Nov 10, 2024 7 min readA Comprehensive Guide on Web Scraping with C#
TL;DR C# + Selenium: install via NuGet , add ChromeDriver ; open page, search, extract result titles. Dynamic pages: click / await and retry until…
Nov 5, 2024 12 min readHow To Scrape Email Addresses From Any Website
TL;DR There are two ways used to scrape emails in this blog: Python + regex on SERP snippets via Scrapingdog’s Google Search API , and a no-code Google…
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