Crawling & Sitemaps
Proxy vs Reverse Proxy in Web Crawling Infrastructure
Maya Okafor
Editor at Large · · 10 min read
Agents can't see when cached data expires, turning stale information into silent failures at scale.
Detect what actually matters before you scrape, or drown in noise.
Cleaning HTML to Markdown cuts token waste by 80% and measurably improves model accuracy.
A four-stage pipeline transforms messy web content into data LLMs can reliably reason over.
Courts and regulators have closed legal loopholes that made web scraping for AI seem risk-free.
Python scraping is a layered stack, not a flat list—pick the right layer for your job.
Async I/O handles HTTP requests; browsers and multiprocessing handle the rest.