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GPT-6 Astra web scraping brings a longer context window and sharper browser control to page parsing. OpenAI released the model on September 3, 2026, with a staged rollout across ChatGPT and the API. This article covers what changed for scraping and how it compares to previous ChatGPT models.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) connects one AI application to tools, data, and APIs. A2A (Agent2Agent) lets independent agents delegate work across trust boundaries. A2A vs. MCP is a question of layers, not competition. The usual mistake is adding a second agent where better tools would be enough. This guide measures both and shows which to build on.

This Browser-use tutorial shows you how to point an AI agent at a live browser and have it get real work done. Browser-use is the leading open-source library for giving LLM agents browser control – MIT-licensed, with over 110k GitHub stars. By the end, you'll have an agent scraping product data, working through multi-step flows, and handling failures.

Browser fingerprinting identifies and tracks your browser by its configuration, not by anything stored on your device. It works even when cookies are cleared or blocked. For users, that makes it a persistent privacy concern; for developers running automation, it's an access obstacle. This article covers how it works, the techniques, why sites use it, and how to reduce yours.

Google is rolling out a new redirect link called google.com/goto inside its search results. Many links now route through this address before reaching the real page. The rollout reached near-complete coverage by late August 2026, and it changes how tools read Google's results pages.

A Grubhub promo offer scraper collects the discounts and perks attached to restaurants. Requesting a restaurant page won't return any of them: Grubhub answers with HTTP 200 and 13,631 bytes of JavaScript shell, byte-identical to the homepage. This guide reverse-engineers the 2 Grubhub endpoints that return the data, builds a working promo collector in Python, and measures what each one omits.

Cloudflare Precursor is a behavioral bot-detection system that constantly analyzes how visitors interact with a website throughout a browsing session. It doesn't check your identity once at a single checkpoint (like a CAPTCHA); instead, it monitors how you interact with the site, such as your mouse movement, keyboard activity, and scrolling. So when you're web scraping or running any sort of browser automation, your script now has to behave like a human for the entire browsing session, not just at certain points like the CAPTCHA point.

Agentic commerce means an AI agent does the shopping: it searches catalogs, compares prices, and sometimes checks out. Retailers are meant to expose a protocol for that. When none is published, the agent reads the product page like a person. We ran 10 US retailer pages through 4 clients, and the best one we built read 5 of them. Adding a real browser didn't help. Correcting its client hints did.

The Agentic Capability Report scores 45 AI browser agents on 10 tasks that matter in daily use. Most vendors describe similar capabilities in their docs, but real-world testing tells a different story. This report separates what's documented from what actually holds up, so you know which tools are ready to act on your behalf and which ones are still working out the details.

HTTPX, Requests, and AIOHTTP all make HTTP requests, but they differ in how they handle concurrency. Requests is synchronous, HTTPX supports sync and async with HTTP/2, and AIOHTTP is async-only and optimized for high concurrency. This article compares their architecture, performance, proxy setup, migration paths, and common production scraping pitfalls.

Wget is a command-line downloader, and a Wget proxy routes its requests through a different IP address so bans and geo-restrictions don't stop your job. It natively supports routing traffic through any HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP proxy server to fetch files securely. This guide covers three ways to configure a Wget proxy, authenticating and rotating it at scale, working around Wget's missing SOCKS5 support, and troubleshooting the errors you'll hit along the way.

You run kimi mcp add to connect to an MCP server. Kimi Code CLI returns the unknown command 'mcp'. Nothing is broken: Moonshot AI publishes 2 builds that both install a command named kimi, and the mcp subcommand belongs to the other build, where it's documented and works. This guide covers which build to install, how to connect MCP servers, what model access costs, and where the built-in fetch tool stops working on pages with bot detection.

Proxy rotation sends each request through a different IP, so a site can't link the traffic to one address. Knowing how to rotate proxies in Python helps you avoid issues such as rate limits and IP bans. This guide covers a few ways to do it, from managing your own list to an endpoint that rotates the IP for you.

Running cURL in JavaScript means translating a terminal cURL command into a JavaScript or Node.js HTTP request using native APIs or external libraries. If you need to migrate a working terminal cURL command into your codebase, you have options. You can execute the system cURL binary directly using child_process or node-libcurl, or rewrite it natively using Fetch or Axios. This guide provides a flag-by-flag cURL-to-JS translation guide and a decision framework to help you choose the best approach for your stack.

Choosing a proxy provider is a decision worth revisiting periodically. This guide compares IPRoyal against 5 established alternatives on pool size, reliability, speed, IP quality, and pricing, using independently tested data from Proxyway's 2026 Proxy Market Research report rather than vendor-reported claims. If you’re considering IPRoyal in 2026, see how it compares with the competition below.

Ad verification is the process of checking that an ad was actually served, where it was reported, to real people, in the intended location. The process depends on a non-advertiser vantage point to provide unbiased metrics. Proxies are the strongest infrastructure layer for independent ad verification. By routing requests through real local IP addresses, auditors can view ads as consumers. This article compares the best proxies for ad verification: Decodo, Bright Data, Oxylabs, SOAX, and IPRoyal.

LLM honeypotting is an emerging deception tactic where websites feed AI crawlers and scrapers plausible-looking but fake or worthless content. That fake data discourages scraping by raising compute costs and degrading what gets collected. It isn't widespread yet, but it's gaining traction. This guide covers what it means for you if you run a scraper, and how to keep your data pipeline clean.

HTTP/3 (QUIC) is now available in beta for residential proxies, letting connections tunnel over UDP instead of TCP alone. It's the same protocol Chrome, Firefox, and most major CDNs use by default, and anti-bot systems increasingly check the protocol layer itself, not just headers or IP reputation. Access is available on request through your account manager.