Posts tagged #web-scraping

How browser fingerprinting catches your scraper: how to pass the tests

June 29, 202614 min

#web-scraping
#automation

Modern sites fingerprint the device and timing, not just navigator.webdriver. Here's how a stealth Selenium setup injects CDP commands, masks automation markers, and persists realistic state to pass real detection suites.

Scraping a fragile legacy site into a clean time series

June 27, 202612 min

#web-scraping
#data-engineering

Pulling years of monthly vehicle prices from a flaky legacy ASP site is a resilience problem: checkpoint and resume, handle modal dialogs, retry hard, and land the result as clean columnar data you can actually analyze.