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Learn how web fingerprinting, CAPTCHAs, and rate limiting work. A technical guide for engineers building robust data pipelines and scraping architectures.
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TL;DR This update introduces durable incident spooling to prevent data loss during infrastructure outages, corrects Chrome identity strings in T3/T4 tiers...
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TL;DR AlterLab’s smart rendering API combines automatic headless browser execution, rotating residential proxies, and built‑in anti‑bot bypass to scrape...
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TL;DR AlterLab’s T4 worker now enforces a single monotonic deadline for each logical scrape operation and returns typed capacity outcomes. This change cuts...
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Compare Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium for web scraping in 2026: performance, features, anti-bot handling, and when to choose each for reliable data extraction.
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TL;DR Build an MCP server that exposes a simple HTTP endpoint. The server calls AlterLab’s scraping API to fetch live web pages, converts the result to...
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TL;DR AlterLab repaired the protectedstorage producer/consumer contract that was blocking promotion from staging to main. The fix aligns capture and restore...
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TL;DR Rotating proxies provide fast, inexpensive IP rotation from datacenter pools, ideal for highvolume scraping of lowrisk sites. Residential proxies use...
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TL;DR Apify’s actor marketplace adds operational overhead for teams that just need reliable data extraction. A dedicated scraping API provides automatic...
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TL;DR To scrape JavaScriptheavy websites, you must use a headless browser or a rendering API to execute clientside code. This ensures the DOM is fully...
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TL;DR To scrape JavaScriptheavy sites reliably, use a headless browser with automatic retries, proxy rotation, and realistic request headers. AlterLab’s API...
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TL;DR AlterLab fixed a regression where active PerimeterX UnifiedDetector evidence wasn't properly unified with passive antibot measures, causing false...
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