Tomasz Wierzbicki

Cost per successful result matters more than headline rates when comparing scraping APIs.

Clean records unlock accurate retrieval and agent decisions before the model runs.

Rendering alone doesn't separate scraping APIs; fidelity and completeness do.

Each approach trades upfront cost against long-term maintenance burden.

Avoid CAPTCHAs first, then solve what you can't prevent.

Distributes scraping traffic across rotating IPs to avoid detection and bans.

Secrets sprawl across AI pipelines puts projects at risk without proper centralized management.

Diagnose whether JavaScript rendering is actually needed before choosing your extraction strategy.

Silent JavaScript rendering failures corrupt AI data pipelines without any error signals.

Playwright's auto-waiting and multi-language support make it the better choice for new projects.

Matching crawl frequency to how fast pages actually change prevents silent pipeline failures.

Most production RAG systems fail silently because crawling only solves half the freshness problem.