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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 re-probe 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.

E-Commerce Seller Pricing Playbook: Buybox, MAP Compliance, and Multi-Marketplace Monitoring

Win the buybox, stay MAP-compliant, and reconcile prices across every marketplace channel. The operational playbook for sellers managing multi-channel pricing at scale.

Independent Hotel Price Monitoring Guide

Independent hotels depend on OTAs for over 63% of bookings, yet most still check competitor rates manually. This guide covers automated rate monitoring, parity tracking, and alert setups that work without a tech team.

BYOI Explained: Bring Your Own Infrastructure for Scraping

Bring Your Own Infrastructure for scraping. What it costs, what it solves, when it wins over managed SaaS or pure DIY. A practical overview.

Self-Healing Scrapers: Why AI Fixes Beat Retry Logic

Retry logic retries. Self-healing learns and fixes. How scrapers detect their own drift, rewrite their own extraction, and stay stable at scale.

When to Use Managed Scraping vs Build Your Own (2026)

Build versus buy for scraping is a cost curve, not a preference. Hidden costs, break-even volumes, and signals that tell you which side wins today.

Choosing a Web Scraping Approach in 2026: Categories, Not Brands

Four categories of scraping approaches in 2026. A category-first decision framework without named comparisons. Pick the shape, not the brand.

How to Automate Web Scraping with AI in 2026

Learn how LLMs, vision models, and MCP are replacing brittle selectors with intelligent, self-healing scraping pipelines for 2026.

Scraping Without Getting Blocked: Proxies, Stealth & CAPTCHAs

Learn how to bypass anti-bot systems in 2026 with proxy rotation, TLS fingerprinting, browser stealth, and CAPTCHA solving. Real code, zero hand-waving.

Web Scraping for Price Monitoring: The 2026 Playbook

Prices change millions of times daily. Manual tracking is dead. Here is the 2026 playbook for building price monitoring scrapers that actually scale.

Web Scraping in 2026: The Complete Guide

Web scraping is a $1.17B industry in 2026, and getting harder. This guide covers the full stack from HTTP requests to AI orchestration, with honest cost breakdowns and legal clarity.