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Automate Pricing Signal Alerts from Public B2B Websites

Most B2B sales teams discover competitor pricing changes days after they happen. This guide shows how to automate pricing signal alerts from public B2B websites so your reps act on intent the moment it appears.

Trawl 3.2: Watch Every Scraper, Know Why a Run Failed

See every scraper on one page, know why a run failed and what Trawl did about it, and let a wizard that tests first build your next one. Live now, nothing to turn on.

Monitor Booking.com Rates for Your Hotel Automatically

Independent hoteliers lose bookings daily because manual Booking.com rate checks are too slow and too infrequent. Here is how to automate competitor rate monitoring with a scheduled scraper.

Trawl 3.1: Your Scrapers Now Repair Themselves

Websites change. Now an AI agent explores the site, repairs your scraper and only ships the fix if your data comes back complete.

Synthetic Monitoring Without a Vendor: Catching Production Failures with Scheduled Scrapers

Stop paying per-check for flows only your team understands. Learn how to build, schedule, and maintain production health scrapers that catch JavaScript failures, auth regressions, and checkout breakage before users do.

Trawl v3: The Wizard Looks at the Page First

The wizard now climbs proxy tiers and reads the real page before it writes a scraper, and automatic repair stops repeating its own dead ends.

Building a Web Data Pipeline for Claude MCP

Step-by-step guide to architecting a web data pipeline that feeds structured, normalized data into Claude via the Model Context Protocol. Covers scraping, normalization, and MCP server design.

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B2B Sales Intelligence from Public Web Data: A Scraper's Playbook

Your competitors' next product launch, their pricing shifts, the new VP they hired last week — all of it is in public web data. Here is how to scrape it systematically for B2B sales intelligence.

Log In Once, Trawl Replays Your Session

A run that lands on a login page is now named as one. Capture your own browser session with one command, and Trawl replays it on every run.

Free vs Paid Tools for Hotel Rate Monitoring

A five-tier framework for independent hotels to find the right rate monitoring approach — from free spreadsheet tracking to managed platforms and custom scrapers. Every option mapped to property size, budget, and technical capability.

Trawl Now Catches Stuck Scrapers, Not Just Failed Runs

Three failed runs in a row is a pattern, not a bad day. Trawl now pauses the schedule, tells you, and shows the state on the card.

Beating Anti-Bot Walls

Four measurement errors that made anti-bot walls look like something they were not: a detector that inverted our block rate, evidence our retention deleted, a challenge served as HTTP 200, and a wall that alternates. With the numbers and the checks.

Try Trawl Before You Sign Up

The demo wizard is now public: no account, no card. Plus API keys on the free plan, 3,000 free credits, and a CLI your agent can read.

Scraping Flight Prices Without Getting Blocked by Airlines

Flight pricing pages are among the most aggressively defended on the web. Learn the four detection layers airlines use and how to build a scraper that stays reliable.

Ground Claude with Live Web Data via MCP

Claude is powerful but frozen in time. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets you wire live scraped web data directly into Claude agents, eliminating staleness and grounding every answer in current reality.

Detecting Product Launches from Engineering Job Hires

Learn to decode competitor product launches months before they go public by reading engineering hiring patterns: which role clusters to track, how to time the signals, and how to automate the workflow.

Travel Price Monitoring in 2026: Flights, Rentals and Experiences

Travel platforms reprice automatically while most people check by hand. This guide covers automated monitoring across all three legs: flight fares, rental rates, and experience availability — with alert architectures that fire before deals disappear.

How We Think About Pricing Compute for a Scraping Tool

Why we price a scraping tool on compute, not seats: usage-based credits that track browser time, proxy tier and AI calls, plus a real free trial.

Trawl v2.0: Your Agent Can Now Build Self-Healing Scrapers

Trawl v2.0: create persistent, self-healing scrapers from one sentence. Via your agent over MCP, your own AI with an API key, the CLI, or the app.

The Proxy-Tier Ladder: How a Scrape Escalates When It Gets Blocked

A block is a signal to climb, not retry. How a scrape escalates one proxy rung at a time, and the audit that downgraded 24 of 52 pinned tiers.

We Gave Every MCP Tool a readOnlyHint: Agent-Safety by Design

Trawl's MCP server gives nine tools to AI agents, and two of them spend compute. We hand-annotated all nine so a grounding agent never fires a billable scrape run by accident.

What Actually Breaks a Scraper in Production

A column of zeros looks like one bug. It's four: nav fails, selector rot, blocks, geo incoherence, each needing the opposite fix. Diagnose before you heal.

How to Use Job Posting Data for Competitor Intelligence

Job postings reveal competitor strategy 6 to 18 months before announcements. Here is how to collect, normalize, and alert on hiring data as a systematic competitive intelligence feed.

Why We Run Scrape Scheduling on Mongo, Not Kafka

Why we coordinate scheduled scrapes on MongoDB instead of a message broker: the incident that forced it, one atomic lock, and the honest trade-offs.

Trawl Beta Launch, Plus MCP Upgrades

The June 2026 beta launch and MCP upgrades: a sharper MCP server for AI agents, fairer billing, and reliability polish. Trawl is now open, free plan, no credit card.