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Laser-focused web extraction guides.

Tutorials, comparisons, reliability tactics, MCP workflows, and practical ways to turn messy websites into clean JSON.

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Guides with actual use.

Grouped like a product hub, not dumped like a blog archive wearing a cheap mask.

MCP
May 2026 · 9 min

Web Scraping Fallbacks for MCP Servers

Fallback design for MCP tools handling 403s, 429s, thin content, Firecrawl, local fetches, and structured extraction.

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API
April 2026 · 5 min

Extract Text From Supported Webpages Using an API

Send a URL and get clean text back. No HTML parsing, no BeautifulSoup, no boilerplate.

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Python
April 2026 · 8 min

How to Scrape JavaScript Rendered Pages with Python

BeautifulSoup returns empty HTML? The page needs JavaScript. Here are four approaches that actually work.

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Comparison
April 2026 · 6 min

Best ScraperAPI Alternative in 2026

A high-intent comparison for developers weighing ScraperAPI against structured extraction.

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Comparison
April 2026 · 6 min

ScrapingBee vs ZenRows vs Haunt API

A practical look at pricing, blocked-page behaviour, AI extraction, and which tool fits which scraping job.

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Python
April 2026 · 8 min

Web Scraping API Python Tutorial

End-to-end Python quickstart with batching, pagination, error handling, and production-ready examples.

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AI extraction
April 2026 · 5 min

Web Scraping in 2026

Why developers are moving from brittle parsers to natural-language extraction for real-world sites.

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Python
April 2026 · 5 min

Python Web Scraping Without BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup still works until the site is dynamic, protected, or broken. Here is the faster route.

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Reliability
April 2026 · 6 min

How to Reduce Web Scraping Failures

Seven practical reliability techniques, from pacing and public-source etiquette to browser rendering.

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Pricing
April 2026 · 5 min

Cheapest Web Scraping API in 2026

A price comparison across scraping APIs, with the value per request made painfully clear.

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Node.js
April 2026 · 6 min

Node.js Web Scraping in 2026

From axios and cheerio to extraction APIs, a practical guide for Node developers who need web data.

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MCP
April 2026 · 8 min

MCP Server for Web Scraping

Give your AI agent real-time web data through Model Context Protocol and natural language prompts.

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Send a URL and prompt. Get structured data back.

Start free with a direct Haunt key or use the docs to wire Haunt into your agent stack.