The ScraperBox Blog
Hi 
, we are
Dirk
and Terry. We're building an easy to use web scraping API.
You can read about our journey and what we've learned along the way on this blog.
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Building a Pararius web scraper with Node
Pararius is the biggest Rental home platform in the Netherlands. It also has some very good web-scraping protection in place. In this article we are going to try to beat the bot detection.
By Dirk on 09 Mar, 2023
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How I spend $500 per day because of a misconfiguration
In one weekend Google Cloud had burned through €1,200 - which is roughly $1,500. Scraperbox is bootstrapped so this was going to come out of my own pocket.
By Dirk on 05 Feb, 2021
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Troubleshooting Guide
Scraping the web can be hard! In this article I will outline the most common problems that you may encounter when using ScraperBox.
By Dirk on 29 Dec, 2020
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How to Scrape Google Search Results with Python
In this article, we're going to build a Google search result scraper in Python! We'll start with creating everything ourselves. And then...
By Dirk on 28 Dec, 2020
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Web Scraping with Ruby
In this article, we're going to set up a web scraper with Ruby! I think that I'll be fun to try and scrape all developer jobs from indeed.com
By Dirk on 22 Dec, 2020
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Solving a Geetest Slider Captcha with Puppeteer
I recently had to solve the Geetest slider captcha. The Captcha is basic enough, you must slide a puzzle piece into the slot...
By Dirk on 01 Dec, 2020
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How to scrape webpages using NodeJS
With web scraping, we can automatically extract data from websites!
By Terry on 30 Nov, 2020
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Getting started with ScraperBox
Before we dive into how to set up Scraperbox, let's talk about what problem it solves.
By Terry on 06 Sep, 2020