Web extraction, LLMs, and building in public.
Technical deep dives on web extraction, content parsing for LLMs, anti-bot bypass, and building open-source infrastructure in Rust. Written by the team behind webclaw.
webclaw turns any website into clean, structured content for AI applications. These posts cover the engineering decisions, trade-offs, and lessons learned building a web extraction toolkit from scratch.
How to Scrape a Website for Emails (the 2026 Guide)
Scraping a website for emails in 2026 is contact discovery plus data-quality control, not regex on a homepage. How to crawl, render, extract, validate, and use email data responsibly.
Competitor Price Tracking: A Developer's Guide 2026
Competitor price tracking is a production data pipeline, not a dashboard. How to collect, normalize, match, and act on competitor price data without making the wrong pricing call.
Bypassing Web Blocks: Expert Strategies for 2026
Bypassing web blocks in 2026 is an architecture decision, not a single trick. When raw HTTP is enough, when you need a headless browser, and when to buy a scraping API.
How to Convert HTML to Markdown: The Complete 2026 Guide
Convert HTML to Markdown the right way: Pandoc for local files, Turndown and markdownify in code, and a URL-to-Markdown API for JavaScript-rendered pages.
Apify Alternative for LLM Web Scraping and AI Agents
Compare Apify actors, the Apify marketplace, and Webclaw for any-URL markdown extraction, structured JSON, crawling, MCP access, and AI agent web tooling.
Bright Data Alternative for LLM Web Scraping
Compare Bright Data, Web Unlocker, and Webclaw for proxy infrastructure, markdown extraction, structured JSON, crawling, batching, and AI agent workflows.
Jina Reader Alternative That Handles Cloudflare (2026)
Jina Reader breaks on Cloudflare and DataDome. Same r.jina.ai-style URL to markdown, plus crawling, batching, and anti-bot bypass that returns content.
Crawl4AI vs Playwright: Which to Use for Scraping (2026)
Crawl4AI vs Playwright for web scraping: which one to pick, where each breaks, and when you need neither. Markdown output, browser control, RAG input.
JavaScript Rendering API: When You Actually Need a Browser
Most pages do not need a headless browser. How to detect an empty React shell, when a JavaScript rendering API is worth it, and how to skip the slow path.
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