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Engineering notes, deep dives, and announcements.
May 30, 2026·3 min read
Scraping Cloudflare-protected sites from .NET
A practical walkthrough of WebReaper's browser and auto-stealth escalation for sites behind Cloudflare, DataDome, and other bot managers.
May 30, 2026·1 min read
Introducing WebReaper
An AI-native web scraper for .NET that ships as a single binary with a bundled Claude Code skill.
May 29, 2026·3 min read
WebReaper vs Firecrawl: a local-first, MIT-licensed alternative
An honest comparison of WebReaper and Firecrawl across distribution model, licensing, AI features, and when each one is the right call.
May 28, 2026·4 min read
AI-native scraping in .NET: deterministic where you can, AI where you must
How WebReaper pairs deterministic CSS and Markdown extraction with an LLM fallback that only fires on empty fields, then caches the fix.