Recent content by lordgl

If you're scraping emails from websites, the biggest headache isn't finding the sites, its keeping your scraper working when they change their layout. Google dorks like "niche keyword" + "contact us" or "about us" give you solid targeted lists pretty fast. For scale, Common Crawl is underrated...

Been deep in the IG automation trenches lately and wanted to share something that completely changed how I think about account bans. Curious if anyone else is seeing this. So everyone talks about fingerprints and proxies right? Get a good antidetect browser, use residential proxies, randomize...

Good question honestly, cleanly distinguishing temporary glitches from real layout changes is something we're still refining. Short version: we look at failure patterns across multiple accounts rather than just one, if a single account misses a selector its probably a page load issue, if several...

Yeah vision is way too expensive to run every time, we cache aggressively. When vision maps a new selector it gets stored and becomes the cached first-try for that intent. We also version it loosely, if the cached selector starts failing (5+ misses in a short window) it triggers a re-inspection...

Spot on about attribute-based paths, thats exactly the priority order we use. data-testid and aria-label first, positional as last resort. LinkedIn is a good example, their class names are basically random hashes that change every deploy. We also found that role-based selectors (like...

Thats a smart workflow ;) LinkedIn is especially tricky with their DOM changes. Funny enough we're actually building a platform right now that deals with exactly this problem. When selectors break, the system automatically tries a cascade of fallback approaches, cached selectors first, then...

Been dealing with this for a while, so just gonna keep it simple. The biggest mistake is people focusing only on proxy quality + fingerprint spoofing and ignoring the TLS layer. If you're using python requests or basic curl your JA3/JA4 fingerprint looks nothing like a real browser. Even with a...

Sup everyone, Just joined the forum and really curious :D We're a small team of 3 jerks. We work in backend engineering, ML/AI, infosec. Been lurking here for a while reading through threads on Instagram automation, account management, antidetect setups and all that. Lots of smart people...