Data Intelligence
Technical guides and industry news from the DataFlirt team.
Self-Healing Scrapers in Python: Where the LLM Actually Belongs
A working Python architecture for self-healing scrapers, where a schema contract detects silent breakage and an LLM repairs selectors only after that contract fails. Includes commented code, sample output, failure routing, and the cost math behind each design choice.
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Eloquent - Web Scraping Monthly Newsletter, August 2026
July 2026 broke the residential proxy supply chain, set a Cloudflare crawler deadline, and produced the first GDPR rulebook for scraping into a model. This issue covers what each shift does to a production crawler, with sourced numbers.
Google v. SerpApi: Why the Court Dismissed Google's DMCA Claims
A federal court dismissed Google's DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi on July 20, 2026. Here's what Google alleged, what SerpApi argued, what the judge actually ruled, and what it means for anyone scraping Google search results.
BeautifulSoup4 for Web Scraping: A Practical Python Guide
Learn BeautifulSoup web scraping with real code: installation, parser choice, CSS selectors, performance fixes, and when to switch tools. A hands-on Python BeautifulSoup tutorial.
Assortment gap analysis with catalog extraction
How do I know if I am missing categories competitors are selling without manually browsing their entire site?.
What are the best ecommerce review scraping tools?
Review scraping tools claim high accuracy but platform anti-bot systems target them specifically. Which tools actually hold up?.