IPcook·Oct 26Is Scraping Amazon Legal? What to Know Before You StartIs scraping Amazon legal? Explore Amazon’s rules, privacy and copyright risks, and key checks before collecting prices, reviews, and images.
HasData·Oct 13What Cloudflare’s September switch did to AI rules in robots.txtWe measured 10,894 sites in July and again the day after the switch. Cloudflare’s managed AI block was gone from all 118 files where the arcA response icon1A response icon1
Rahmouni Oussama·Oct 10Your scraper isn’t blocked by “the site”, it’s blocked by a layer. Here’s how to find which one.Three questions I ask before debugging any blocked pipeline, and the tools I finally built to answer them.
Pete·Sep 30You can’t handle the crawl!By 2031 AI agents doing on demand fetches of your website could be anywhere up to 56 trillion live requests per year, 4x of legacy search…A response icon1A response icon1
InStackademicbyPete·Sep 16Why you stalking my robots.txt file, bro?It’s OK if you have no idea what robots.txt is about because apparently neither do some of the largest sites out there.
InStackademicbyLambert Watts·Aug 30Crawler Website Tools Compared: Best Web Crawlers for 2026Picking the right web crawler tool shapes everything downstream, whether you’re pulling data at scale, running an SEO audit, or gathering…
Slick·Aug 24The hardest part of search isn’t ranking, it’s crawling.When people talk about search engines, they usually focus on ranking.
Paul Crinigan·Aug 9Why Your Crawler Slows Down After The First Thousand PagesThe first version of a crawler always works. You write a loop that fetches a page, pulls the links out of it, adds them to a list, and…
InBehind the FirewallbyLambert Watts·Jul 27I replaced Tavily in my agent setup for Oxylabs Fast Search API. Here’s what changedIf you’re looking for a fast search api, Oxylabs’ Fast Search API is a pure SERP retrieval API built to return the top 10 organic search…A response icon1A response icon1
Adeowofemi·Jul 23The New Stack for Web Scraping Teams: Browsers, Proxies, APIs, and AI AgentsWeb Scraping Has Moved Beyond Simple Scripts
