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Three APIs, three different jobs. Learn when to use Scrape, Crawl, or Map so you stop over-engineering simple tasks and under-engineering complex ones.

Most scrapers break on login walls and JS-heavy flows. Here's how CDP-based browser sessions handle stateful automation without losing context.

Static document stores go stale fast. Here's how to wire live web search into a RAG pipeline so your LLM always answers from current data.

Most headless browsers leak fingerprints that detection systems catch instantly. Here's how Camoufox patches Firefox at the C++ level to fix that.

Login walls break naive scrapers. Here's how session persistence works, what goes wrong without it, and how to handle it correctly.

Scrape, Crawl, and Map do different things. Here's how to choose the right one based on what your pipeline actually needs.