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Crawlbase
Company blog · blog.proxycrawl.com/blogprogrammingwebsecurity
Crawlbase is the company blog at blog.proxycrawl.com, writing about programming, web and security. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Crawlbase's (ProxyCrawl's) blog for web scraping tutorials. One commenter links a post on scraping Amazon reviews with Node.js as a tutorial for people wanting to scrape Amazon with Node.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering deep dives on web scraping, proxy infrastructure, CAPTCHA systems, anti-bot architecture, and crawl intelligence. For engineers, by engineers.
What Hacker News says?
For those looking on how to scrape amazon with node, here is a good one https://blog.proxycrawl.com/how-to-scrape-amazon-reviews-nod...
Comment linking /how-to-scrape-amazon-reviews-node/
on “Tutorial: How to Scrape Amazon Using Python Scrapy”Submitted How to extracting company emails like a pro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best web scraping tools in 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to do when websites block your proxy? as a story · 1 points
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