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.

An anti-bot scraping API that detects the block first, then escalates to a browser only when needed. Faster and cheaper, with clean markdown or JSON out.

A practical checklist for testing web scraping APIs on real agent and RAG workflows, not toy URLs like example.com.

Already using Firecrawl? Learn how Firecrawl-compatible endpoints work, what to test before switching, and how to evaluate webclaw with your existing scrape and crawl calls.

A checklist for Cloudflare scraping failures. What to log, what each signal means, and when to change fingerprint, session, rate limit, or render in a browser.

Cloudflare fingerprints your TLS and HTTP/2 handshake with JA3 and JA4 — that is why curl gets 403 and Chrome gets 200 on the same request. How browser-grade clients flip the result.

Cloudflare 403, 503, 1020, 1015 each mean a different block. A decision tree to read the code, find the failing layer, and fix it. Includes error 1020.

puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth still gets caught by Cloudflare in 2026. The network, request, and session signals that give it away, and what to run instead.

How Cloudflare Turnstile works in 2026 and what actually bypasses it. The four signals that decide pass or block: TLS, HTTP/2, token, session. No solver hype.

LlamaIndex web scraping fails on blocks, empty shells, and noisy HTML. Feed cleaner markdown into RAG pipelines and agents.
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