Shadow DOM: The Silent Killer of AI Web Scraping
Your AI scraper loads a page, parses the DOM, and returns an empty result. No errors, no timeouts, no blocked requests. The page clearly has content when you open it in a browser, but your scraper ...
Your AI scraper loads a page, parses the DOM, and returns an empty result. No errors, no timeouts, no blocked requests. The page clearly has content when you open it in a browser, but your scraper ...
By the end of 2025, roughly 1 AI bot visit occurred for every 31 human visits on the open web. At the start of that same year, the ratio was closer to 1 in 200. That is a sixfold increase in less t...
Playwright has been the go-to browser automation framework for scraping professionals and testers for years. In early 2026, Microsoft started redesigning it not just for human developers, but for A...
The biggest change in web scraping over the past year has not been a new browser automation framework or a faster HTTP client. It has been schema-driven LLM extraction – a pattern where you define ...
The gap between bot detection systems and stealth browsers has never been narrower. Over the past year, anti-bot vendors like Cloudflare, DataDome, and Akamai have rolled out detection layers that ...
AI has transformed web scraping from a fragile, selector-driven craft into something that feels almost magical. Point a vision model at a webpage, describe what you want, and structured data comes ...
Browser automation has moved past the era of manually coding every click and selector. Traditional tools like Selenium and Playwright still offer fine-grained programmatic control, but a newer wave...
On February 4, 2026, Microsoft launched its Publisher Content Marketplace – a platform where publishers set licensing terms and AI companies pay for the right to use their content as training data....
Crawlers are no longer just fetching HTML and dumping it into databases – they need to produce clean, structured output that large language models can actually consume. Crawl4AI has been building t...
The robots.txt protocol has been the de facto standard for communicating with web crawlers since 1994. For over thirty years, this simple text file has served as the handshake between websites and ...