Nathan Kessler
Nathan Kessler is the founder and editor of webscrape.dev. He runs the directory and writes the reviews himself, focused on the full web scraping stack: scraping APIs, proxy networks, crawling frameworks, and the browser tooling that sits underneath them. He tests these the way a buyer would, weighting reliability, real pricing, and how a vendor behaves at scale over feature lists.
Articles by Nathan Kessler
- Cloudflare put ai-train=no in 3.8 million robots.txt files. Your price scraper can ignore it. Your training set can't.
- Residential proxy prices stopped falling in 2026. The cheap entry tier went with them.
- What a web scraping MCP server actually changes (and what it doesn't)
- Bots now get an ID card. Most scrapers won't qualify for one.
- Google tried to make bypassing a bot wall a copyright crime. The SerpApi ruling said no.
- Perplexity beat Amazon's CFAA claim on where its code runs. Your scrapers run somewhere else.
- robots.txt is quietly turning into a license. Your crawler still reads it as a yes/no
- AI web scraping in 2026: the survey says it's writing your scrapers, not running them
- Cloudflare put a meter on the web. It only bills the bots that raise their hand.
- Agents are winning the logged-in work, not the bulk crawl
- Antidetect browsers are being pushed out of the fingerprint business
- Open-source crawlers did not lose. The blocking layer moved out from under them.
- Your people-data vendor has a compliance calendar. Ask to see it.
- Chrome's Headless Rewrite Changed the Arithmetic of Your Own Browser Fleet
- No-Code Scrapers Are Becoming Back Ends for Something Else
- City and ASN targeting is table stakes. It is usually the wrong knob.
- Every proxy network on your shortlist now has a parent company
- Per-GB pricing stopped describing what you actually pay for
- Reddit's lawsuit names a proxy provider. Read your supplier contract again.
- Where Your Residential IPs Come From Is Now a Procurement Question
- The web unblocker quietly became the default proxy purchase
- Automating Antidetect Browsers: Local APIs, Playwright Bindings and Profile Ops
- Do You Need an Antidetect Browser, or Just a Scraping API?
- Browser Agents for Pages Your Crawler Cannot Reach: Logins, Portals, Forms
- Buying Web Data: Coverage Audits, Refresh Cadence and Licensing Terms
- Crawling Ten Million Pages: Frontier Design, Dedup, Politeness and Storage
- LLM Extraction or CSS Selectors: Decide Per Field, Not Per Project
- Collecting Localized SERPs: Country, City, Language and Device Targeting
- Running Two Proxy Vendors: Failover, Cost Routing and Avoiding Lock-In
- Recurring Price and Content Monitoring Without Writing a Crawler
- Extension, Desktop App or Cloud: How to Pick a No-Code Scraper
- When a No-Code Scraper Stops Working: Selector Drift and the Move to Code
- Proxy Pricing Explained: Per GB, Per IP, Per Request and What You Really Pay
- Datacenter, ISP, Residential or Mobile: Picking a Proxy Type by Target
- How to Read a Web Scraping Benchmark: Success Rate, Sample Bias, Sponsorship
- Where Residential Proxy IPs Come From, and How to Audit a Provider
- Scraping API Credits Decoded: What a Single Request Actually Costs
- Self-Hosting Headless Chrome vs Managed Browser Infrastructure: The Cost Math
- Trusting AI-Extracted Data: Schema Design, Validation and Drift Detection
- Web Unblocker, Scraping API or Your Own Browser Fleet: Where the Line Is
- Why Your Scraper Gets Blocked: Reading 403s, Challenges and Fingerprints
- Browse AI vs Apify: No-Code Robots or a Cloud Scraping Platform (2026)
- Coresignal vs People Data Labs: B2B Data Providers Compared (2026)
- Decodo vs SOAX: Mid-Tier Residential Proxy Networks Compared (2026)
- Diffbot vs Kadoa: Automated Structured Extraction Compared (2026)
- Evomi vs NodeMaven: Filtered Residential Proxy Pools Compared (2026)
- GoLogin vs AdsPower: Antidetect Browsers for Data Collection Teams (2026)
- IPRoyal vs DataImpulse: Pay-As-You-Go Residential Proxies Compared (2026)
- Lightpanda vs Browserless: Cutting the Cost of Headless Rendering (2026)
- Multilogin vs Octo Browser: Premium Antidetect Platforms Compared (2026)
- Octoparse vs Web Scraper: Visual Scraping Tools Compared (2026)
- Playwright vs Selenium: Browser Automation for Scraping Compared (2026)
- ScraperAPI vs ScrapingBee: General-Purpose Scraping APIs Compared (2026)
- Serper vs SearchApi: SERP Data at Crawl Volume Compared (2026)
- Webshare vs Rayobyte: Datacenter and ISP Proxies for Crawl Fleets (2026)
- ZenRows vs Scrapfly: Anti-Bot Scraping APIs Compared (2026)
- The Web Scraping Stack in 2026: Three Layers and Where Build-vs-Buy Falls
- How to Choose a Web Scraping Tool in 2026
- Bright Data vs Oxylabs: How the Two Enterprise Proxy Networks Compare (2026)
- Scrapy vs Crawlee (2026): Choosing an Open-Source Crawling Framework