by Zlata | Oct 5, 2026 | Web Scraping and AI
Engineering guide · Last reviewed 5 October 2026 · 14 min read DataDome bot detection no longer works like a perimeter filter that maps an IP address to a rule and a block. In 2026 it behaves like a real-time classification pipeline: network, browser, behavioral and...
by ProxyEmpire Team | Sep 25, 2026 | Web Scraping and AI
Architecture, capacity planning, proxy orchestration, reliability, and cost control at browser scale Running a few Playwright jobs on one machine is straightforward. Operating 10,000 simultaneous browser sessions is a distributed-systems problem involving memory,...
by ProxyEmpire | Sep 22, 2026 | Web Scraping and AI
Engineering deep dive · Last reviewed 22 September 2026 · 19 min read For two decades, web automation meant sending an HTTP request and parsing the HTML that came back. A growing share of the modern web no longer works that way: the page is a program, the program runs...
by ProxyEmpire Team | Dec 9, 2025 | Web Scraping and AI
Large language models, or LLMs, rely on vast amounts of data to learn and improve. This data comes from all over the web, but gathering it isn’t always straightforward. Websites often block repeated requests or limit access based on location. That’s where...
by ProxyEmpire Team | Oct 8, 2025 | Web Scraping and AI
Data collection guide · Last reviewed 1 October 2026 · 15 min read Web crawler vs web scraper comes down to one question: are you looking for pages, or for data on pages? A web crawler discovers URLs by following links and reading sitemaps, and builds a list of what...
by ProxyEmpire Team | Sep 4, 2025 | Web Scraping and AI
AI data guide · Last reviewed 26 September 2026 · 13 min read Most LLM training data starts as web pages. Someone has to fetch those pages, pull the text out, throw most of it away, and keep a clean, deduplicated, well-documented remainder. This guide explains where...
