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Anda Miuțescu

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Anda Miuțescu is a Technical Content Writer at WebScrapingAPI, creating clear, useful content that helps developers understand the product and its capabilities.

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Anda Miuțescu, Technical Content Writer @ WebScrapingAPI

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Best Rotating Residential Proxies In 2026 For Web Scraping
Science of Web Scraping

Best Rotating Residential Proxies In 2026 For Web Scraping

TL;DR: The best rotating residential proxies in 2026 are not the ones with the biggest billboard pool size. They are the ones whose session control, geo-targeting, ethical sourcing, and per-GB economics actually match the targets you scrape. This guide gives you a vendor-neutral evaluation framework, a comparison table of 11 providers, and a use-case map so you can shortlist two or three before you ever touch a credit card.

Anda Miuțescu36 min read
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Best Wget Alternatives: Modern CLI Download Tools Compared
Guides

Best Wget Alternatives: Modern CLI Download Tools Compared

TL;DR: Wget is reliable but aging. If you need parallel downloads, grab aria2. For broad protocol coverage and scripting, curl is the go-to. Want a friendlier API testing workflow? HTTPie (or its Rust sibling xh) fits perfectly. And if you want the closest upgrade path, wget2 adds HTTP/2, multithreading, and a plugin system while keeping the same command patterns you already know.

Anda Miuțescu10 min read
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Best Shared and Dedicated Datacenter Proxies in 2026
Science of Web Scraping

Best Shared and Dedicated Datacenter Proxies in 2026

TL;DR: For cheap bulk scraping of lightly protected sites, Decodo and Webshare have the lowest shared datacenter proxy prices. For dedicated IPs at scale, SquidProxies, Oxylabs, and Bright Data fall to between $0.80 and $1.30 per IP at their top tiers. Pick semi-dedicated IPs from Rayobyte or BuyProxies when you want fewer neighbors on a budget. This guide compares 11 providers on list prices.

Anda Miuțescu20 min read
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Web Scraping vs Web Crawling: A Beginner's Guide
Science of Web Scraping

Web Scraping vs Web Crawling: A Beginner's Guide

TL;DR: Learn how crawlers find pages and scrapers extract useful data. Follow a bookstore example, compare their outputs, and choose the right workflow for your first project.

Anda Miuțescu11 min read
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Web Scraping Best Practices: A Lifecycle Playbook With Tips and Working Code
Science of Web Scraping

Web Scraping Best Practices: A Lifecycle Playbook With Tips and Working Code

TL;DR: Web scraping best practices are the habits that keep a scraper legal, polite, accurate, and cheap to run. Write a data contract, prefer APIs or JSON over HTML, follow robots.txt as RFC 9309 defines it, pace each host, honor Retry-After, and validate every record before saving it. This playbook applies them to each stage of a scraper's lifecycle, with working Python snippets.

Anda Miuțescu27 min read
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Web Scraping for Content Marketing: Evidence to Editorial
Use Cases

Web Scraping for Content Marketing: Evidence to Editorial

TL;DR: Build an evidence inventory, identify reader-task gaps, and turn reviewed observations into original content. Preserve sources, uncertainty, and clear visual explanations.

Anda Miuțescu13 min read
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Web Scraping for a Startup Launch
Use Cases

Web Scraping for a Startup Launch

TL;DR: Test a startup launch assumption with a narrow, reviewed dataset. Combine collection quality with user research and a launch gate that can narrow or stop the project.

Anda Miuțescu12 min read
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Web Scraping IP Blocks: Diagnose and Recover
Science of Web Scraping

Web Scraping IP Blocks: Diagnose and Recover

TL;DR: Identify the evidence behind a failed scrape before calling it an IP block. Diagnose rate limits, session problems, and access denials, then validate recovery.

Anda Miuțescu12 min read
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What Is Web Scraping Used For? 12 Use Cases With Real Examples
Use Cases

What Is Web Scraping Used For? 12 Use Cases With Real Examples

TL;DR: What is web scraping used for? See 12 real-world use cases, from price monitoring to AI data, with the data, sources, and decision each one powers.

Anda Miuțescu21 min read
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Web Scraping API Advantages and Tradeoffs
Science of Web Scraping

Web Scraping API Advantages and Tradeoffs

TL;DR: See which responsibilities a scraping API can take over and which remain yours. Evaluate rendering, structured output, recovery, and cost per usable record.

Anda Miuțescu12 min read
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We’re Live: Welcome to the WebScrapingAPI Blog
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We’re Live: Welcome to the WebScrapingAPI Blog

TL;DR: Are you a developer, data scientist, non-coder, small or big company? You have come to the right place. Enjoy our web scraping articles!

Anda Miuțescu3 min read
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