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I Scanned 8 Popular Sites for Bot Protection — Here's What Actually Stops Scrapers

Dev.to · Charles 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

I Scanned 8 Popular Sites for Bot Protection — Here's What Actually Stops Scrapers

If you've ever built a web scraper, you know the pain: your code works perfectly in dev, then the...

How I benchmarked a 100% local RAG pipeline to 9/9 (zero API keys)

Dev.to · Charles 🔍 RAG & Vector Search ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How I benchmarked a 100% local RAG pipeline to 9/9 (zero API keys)

Most "chat with your documents" demos work in an afternoon. Then you hit the last 20%: retrieval that...

From API Key to Production: Setting Up a Web Scraping Pipeline in 10 Minutes

Dev.to · Charles 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

From API Key to Production: Setting Up a Web Scraping Pipeline in 10 Minutes

Set up a production-ready web scraping pipeline from scratch in 10 minutes using XCrawl API. Step-by-step with code.

XCrawl vs Puppeteer vs Playwright: Which Web Scraping Tool Saves You More Time in 2026?

Dev.to · Charles ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

XCrawl vs Puppeteer vs Playwright: Which Web Scraping Tool Saves You More Time in 2026?

The Web Scraping Toolkit Spectrum Let's be real: there are dozens of ways to scrape the...

How to Scrape JS-Rendered E-Commerce Pages Without Getting Blocked (2026 Guide)

Dev.to · Charles ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Scrape JS-Rendered E-Commerce Pages Without Getting Blocked (2026 Guide)

The Problem E-commerce sites like Amazon, Walmart, and Target have moved to heavy...