Anti-Blocking
Anti-blocking solutions enable scrapers to avoid detection and bypass rate limits or CAPTCHAs using techniques like IP rotation, and user-agent spoofing. We benchmarked leading anti-blocking methods to see which ones perform best on bot-protected sites.
Top 5 Website Unblockers Benchmarked & Compared
Anti-BlockingBenchmarkOct 14We benchmarked 4 leading web data providers across the top 10,000 domains, running a total of 260,000 requests. Each provider was tested at multiple concurrency levels to measure how they behave under increasing load. We also ran a separate markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs, with Exa added, to measure how often each provider returns…
- Anti-BlockingInsightOct 14
How to Bypass CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA & hCaptcha)
Modern CAPTCHA and human-verification systems use a mix of challenge-response tests, browser signals, server-side token validation, and adaptive challenges. Attempting to bypass CAPTCHA on third-party websites can violate the terms of service or trigger account or IP blocks. The better approach is to use official APIs, reduce request rates, or implement a modern bot-management solution…
- Anti-BlockingBenchmarkSep 21
Web Scraping Roadmap
We scraped 10,000 live domains and 100 marketplaces using products from six web data infrastructure companies.We benchmarked these tools to see how well they handle enterprise web data use cases. We benchmarked 4 leading web data providers across the top 10,000 domains, running a total of 260,000 requests. Each provider was tested at multiple concurrency…
- Anti-BlockingBenchmarkAug 13
Best CAPTCHA Solving Services
We compared 10 CAPTCHA-solving services based on which CAPTCHA types each one supports, whether it solves CAPTCHAs via AI or human workers, and how it prices. We also stress-tested the four integrated unblockers (Bright Data, Decodo, Oxylabs, Zyte) against the real-world target, Cloudflare’s Under Attack mode. To see how the integrated unblockers hold up against…