The toolbox

The tools I actually scrape with.

No giant list of everything. Just the handful I reach for, what each one is for in plain English, and which play it shows up in. Most are free.

Claude Code
The engine Paid

Claude Code is Anthropic's AI that runs in your terminal and can actually do things: run code, read files, fetch pages, and write ...

About Claude Code
Bright Data
Getting past blocks Paid

Bright Data is a service that makes your request look like it's coming from an ordinary person on home internet, instead of a robo...

About Bright Data
Playwright
Real browser Free

Playwright is a free tool that opens and drives a real web browser in the background, no window pops up. It can click, scroll, typ...

About Playwright
crt.sh
Discovery Free

crt.sh is a free, public search of website security certificates. Every time a web page turns on the little padlock in your browse...

About crt.sh
Subfinder
Discovery Free

Subfinder is a free, fast tool that hunts down a website's subdomains by checking dozens of public sources at once, so you don't h...

About Subfinder
Apify
Ready-made scrapers Free tier + paid

Apify is a marketplace of ready-made scrapers. Want every business on Google Maps in a city? There's a scraper for that you just r...

About Apify
Firecrawl
Page fetching Free tier + paid

Firecrawl is a service that fetches a web page, or crawls an entire site, and gives you back clean text that's already stripped of...

About Firecrawl
CloakBrowser
Real browser Paid

CloakBrowser is a browser designed to look like a genuine human visitor, with all the little fingerprints a real browser has, so s...

About CloakBrowser

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