Field notes from the web data layer
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and practical guides on getting past bot detection, structured extraction, and shipping scrapers you never have to babysit.
RSS feedIntroducing webscrape.ai: the web, as an API
Send a URL and a description of the fields you want, and get clean, schema-validated JSON back in one call, with the proxies and browsers handled for you.
▸launch3 min
Why structured extraction beats CSS selectors
Hand-written selectors break every time a site redesigns. Describing the data you want survives the redesign. Here's the tradeoff, and how we keep the AI version repeatable.
▸engineering4 min
Beating bot detection without overpaying for it
Not every page needs a full browser. Our fetch stack starts with a plain HTTP request and climbs to a stealthed browser only when a site forces it, which keeps the easy pages fast and the hard ones reachable.
▸engineering4 min