The Scraping Log
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What Actually Gets You Blocked When Web Scraping (2026)
We run a web scraping API and see millions of requests a day. Here's what actually gets you blocked in 2026 — and what doesn't, signal by signal.
CAPTCHA Solving for Web Scraping: The Honest 2026 Guide
The honest 2026 guide to CAPTCHAs in web scraping: the landscape, why they appear, solving services and real cost per 1k, accuracy, and why avoiding the trigger beats solving it.
Web Scraping Without Getting Blocked: The 2026 Anti-Ban Playbook
How to scrape without getting blocked: the behavioral and operational playbook — politeness and rate shaping, realistic headers and fingerprints, caching, retries, ban detection, IP strategy, and recovery. What actually keeps you unbanned, not proxy marketing.
Bypassing anti-bot protections: TLS, fingerprints, and Cloudflare
A frank guide to anti-bot defenses and how scrapers get past them: TLS/JA3 fingerprinting, Cloudflare's challenge, PerimeterX, CAPTCHAs, residential proxies, and the libraries (curl_cffi, Camoufox) that actually work in 2026.