Insights & Engineering

TL;DR: This guide shows how to scrape HTML tables in Golang end to end: choose between Colly, goquery, and golang.org/x/net/html, target the right <tbody>, model rows as a typed struct, and export clean JSON and CSV. You also get pagination, anti-block, and JavaScript-rendered table patterns.

TL;DR: Playwright gives you full browser automation for scraping JavaScript-heavy sites, with first-class support for both Python and Node.js. This guide walks you through installation, element extraction, proxy configuration, anti-detection, pagination, image downloads, and exporting data to CSV or JSON, all with side-by-side code examples in both languages.

TL;DR: Figuring out how to scrape Google Maps for reviews comes down to three method tracks: a DIY Selenium scraper behind a rotating proxy, a scraping API with render instructions, or a structured Maps Reviews API that returns parsed JSON. This guide walks through all three in Python with copy-pasteable code, pagination patterns, anti-block tactics, and a final cleaning step that turns raw reviews into something a business can actually use.

TL;DR: This guide shows how to download files with Python from a single one-liner up to authenticated, resumable, parallel, and async pipelines. You will learn when to reach for urllib, requests, ThreadPoolExecutor, or aiohttp, how to stream large payloads, add a real tqdm progress bar, retry with backoff, and verify integrity with checksums and Content-Length.

TL;DR: This guide walks through how to use proxies with Python Requests end to end: a working proxies dict, authenticated URLs, environment variables, Session reuse, SOCKS5 with no DNS leaks, and a rotation pool with retries and a circuit breaker. By the end, you will know when a managed API earns its keep over a DIY pool.

Learn how to scrape Google Maps place results with our API using Node.js: step-by-step guide, professional scraper benefits, and more. Get data_id, coordinates, and build data parameter easily.