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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 lies in cross-browser support and feature richness. Playwright supports multiple browser engines, whereas Puppeteer is primarily focused on Chromium-based browsers and offers a more straightforward experience.

Jun 169 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

Techniques for Avoiding CAPTCHAs in Web Scraping [2025]

Web scraping is an effective method for collecting and analyzing data from any web source. However, the growing use of anti-scraping technologies by websites, such as CAPTCHA, make web scraping more challenging and time-consuming. CAPTCHAs can  prevent automated bots and scripts from accessing and interacting with websites. However, there are best practices to bypass them.

Apr 37 min read

Best Python Web Scraping Libraries: Selenium vs Beautiful Soup

Based on my more than a decade of software development experience including the CTO role at AIMultiple where I lead data collection from ~80,000 web domains, I have selected the top Python web scraping libraries.

Apr 37 min read
Cheerio vs Puppeteer for Your Web Scraping Project in 2025

Cheerio vs Puppeteer for Your Web Scraping Project in 2025

Cheerio and Puppeteer are two of the most popular Node.js libraries developers use to create web crawlers that efficiently extract data from web sources. This article examines Cheerio and Puppeteer, including their main features, pros, and cons, and outline the key differences between Cheerio and Puppeteer.

May 63 min read

Top 6 ParseHub Alternatives & Evaluation in 2025

ParseHub is a web data collection platform that provides scraping services. Our research uncovered some issues that ParseHub users face. Before utilizing ParseHub’s scraping services, it may be prudent to investigate alternatives that may better suit your business’s needs.

Apr 47 min read

Octoparse vs ParseHub: Pros, Cons and Features Compared

Octoparse and ParseHub are no code web scraping tools that enable users to extract web data without knowledge of HTML structures and elements. However, each has limitations when scraping data. To evaluate Octoparse and ParseHub, we scraped a particular product on Amazon.

Jun 135 min read

Oxylabs vs Bright Data: Features and Performance Compared

Oxylabs and Bright Data are data collection-focused web data platforms, offering products in the same domain, such as:   If you’re in the market for a proxy/web data collection solution, you’re likely to come across these two vendors. So it’s important to understand  Oxylabs vs.

Apr 174 min read

Top 6 Octoparse Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

Octoparse is an easy-to-use platform to get started with web scraping. As a non-technical user, I kick-started AIMultiple’s data collection efforts with Octoparse.

Apr 46 min read
Top 5 Web Scraping Use Cases in the Food Industry in 2025

Top 5 Web Scraping Use Cases in the Food Industry in 2025

A food product’s descriptive qualities and components.

Jan 105 min read