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Web Scraping

Best Twitter Scrapers 2025: Apify and Alternatives

We benchmarked top Twitter scrapers on 200 URLs (profile pages and posts) in December 2024 and January 2025, resulting in 400 requests. See the top 6 scrapers and follow the links to see the rationale behind these choices: You can also see best practices for using Twitter (X) scrapers effectively while adhering to X.

Apr 307 min read

Top LinkedIn Dataset Providers in 2025

LinkedIn datasets can be categorized into profile data and company data: LinkedIn dataset providers: Features & pricing 1. Bright Data Bright Data is a web data platform specializing in web scraping solutions. Their services include proxy tools, web scraper APIs, and datasets in various categories such as e-commerce, social media, real estate, and market research.

Apr 46 min read

Playwright vs Puppeteer in 2025: Scraping & Automation

Playwright and Puppeteer are the most powerful open-source tools for controlling headless browsers. The main difference between these tools lie in cross-browser support and feature richness. Playwright supports multiple browser engines, on the other hand, Puppeteer is primarily focused on Chromium-based browsers and offers a more straightforward experience.

Apr 187 min read

ChatGPT Web Scraping: Tutorial & Applications in 2025

ChatGPT is bringing AI to web scraping, saving developers from manual parsing work that requires constant updates. Using language models is becoming one of web scraping best practices.

Mar 215 min read

Large-Scale Web Scraping: Techniques & Challenges [2025]

We benchmarked leading web scraper APIs with 12,500 requests to e-commerce platforms and search engines. Then, we tested the reliability of the underlying services (i.e. residential proxies) with 5,000 and 100,000 parallel requests. Based on these experiences, we explain how to scrape large-scale data efficiently and ethically.

Apr 46 min read

5 Best Proxy Managers in '25: In-Depth Analysis & Comparison

Effectively managing  proxies is a crucial aspect of web scraping projects. However, websites may ban IP addresses or present CAPTCHAs if they detect suspicious activity from a proxy. Users must have efficient strategies to handle scraping challenges, such as using additional proxies. Using proxies poses its own challenges, especially when dealing with multiple proxies.

Jan 215 min read

How to Scrape Images with Python for SEO in 2025

When scraping image data with Python library, the goal can go beyond just downloading the images. You may need to collect metadata and additional contextual information associated with the images on a webpage. This typically involves gathering details like the image’s alt text, dimensions, captions, file sizes, and other relevant image data.

Apr 187 min read

How to Scrape Data from Walmart: Top Scraper APIs [2025]

We benchmarked the leading Walmart scraper APIs, analyzing 2 batches of requests to 200 URLs from product and search pages during Dec 2024 and Jan 2025, totaling 2,000 requests: This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to scrape Walmart’s product pages using Python and various other tools.

Apr 36 min read

Playwright vs Puppeteer: The Right Browser Automation Tool

Playwright and Puppeteer are both popular open-source frameworks developed for web automation and browser testing. Yet, there are some significant differences between the two that may affect their suitability for specific use cases. This article examines differences and similarities between Playwright and Puppeteer including browser support, API design, web scraping capabilities and community support.

Nov 84 min read

10 Web Scraping Techniques & Tools for Every Skill Level

Web scraping is not the only way to collect data from websites. Various other methods (e.g. LLMs) are available and each technique has trade-offs.

Apr 46 min read