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22 posts tagged “Web Scraping”.
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We stratified-sampled 208,621 Instagram business accounts across 7 follower bands. About 46% never picked a category Meta calls a mandatory setup step.
We tagged 190,589 GitHub developers by specialty. India leads only 2 of 9 domains; Nigeria's web3 tag rate over-indexes 7.8x, the biggest skew we found.
10,000 TrustMRR listings, verified: AI beats SaaS on revenue too (not just hype), the median startup has $0 MRR, and bigger businesses sell for LOWER multiples.
BBB's own data: 92% of rated businesses hold an A+, but that hides real signal — 68.7% A+ in Collections Agencies vs. 96.5% in Lawyers, a 27.8-point spread.
We cross-tabbed 616,627 Instagram profiles by profession. Verification swings 22.9%-71.0%, tracking how each profession entered our index, not fame.
Two benchmarks and a third internal test, synthesized: engine choice, architecture, and IP-timezone coherence each failed alone against a real anti-bot target.
Tracking 17 companies' market cap, 2016-2026: Nvidia dropped out of the world's top 10 in 2022, then became Earth's most valuable company within 3 years.
Scanning Polymarket's biggest markets for the sharpest reversals: a NYC mayoral race swung 92 points in a month, beating 2024's Biden-to-Harris swap.
We ran ChromiumFish, patchright, camoufox, and zendriver against a free detector and a live Cloudflare target. All four tied — for different reasons.
We ran native and JS-patched stealth browsers through free detectors and two live Cloudflare targets. All tied on stealth — IP reputation decided pass or fail.
460 top box office releases, 1980–2025: average runtime rose every decade, 111.6 to 129.8 minutes — a 20-minute gain, driven hardest by sci-fi and action.
A new discovery tier — web mentions, not curated seed lists — added 324,523 X profiles. They verify a quarter as often and have a sixth as many mega-accounts.
820,548 X profiles hold 47.5 billion followers between them. Gini coefficient: 0.94 — beyond Brazil or Russia's wealth inequality, the highest on record.
A 2,462-account X audit found 63% fill in location — Common Crawl accounts (65%) beat curated, notable ones (51%), flipping this series' usual pattern.
We matched X profiles against Wikidata notability. At the same follower count, 9% of notable people carry the blue check — versus 46% of GitHub developers.
Job title, employer, 'opinions my own,' a link — the classic X bio is fading. Newer arrivals leave it blank, a pattern seen in two independent groups.
X's help page still says you can follow 5,000 accounts. We measured 325,553 real profiles: nobody small enough to be capped ever gets past ~7,500.
We pulled 325,553 public X profiles and ranked them by lifetime posts. The top account has 131.6M posts. Ten of the next twelve are Japanese brand bots.
We checked 1,935,047 open job postings for genuine web-scraping duties. Found 280 (0.0145%) — only 2 are titled 'Web Scraper.' Here's what exists instead.
We tried to count AI-lab mentions across 697,439 X bios. Two-word lab names collapse into noise; only single-token names like OpenAI or DeepMind hold up.
A system-design walkthrough: the queue, the worker fleet, the language choice, and the resource tuning behind a 16,000-req/s distributed web scraper.
Your scraper works locally but 403s from a server? Usually it's IP reputation, TLS fingerprinting, or headless detection — how to tell which, and fix it.