Guides, playbooks & comparisons
Everything on extracting web data at scale - scraping, marketplace intelligence, competitor monitoring, ad research, and AI-native extraction.
How to Scrape Amazon Product Data in 2026 (Without Getting Blocked)
A practical guide to extracting Amazon product data - price, title, rating, BSR, images, and seller - at scale, with rotating proxies and a single API call.
Read articleHow to Scrape Instagram: Posts, Profiles & Hashtags (2026 Guide)
Learn how to scrape Instagram posts, profiles, and hashtags in 2026 using session replay and rotating proxies. Batch shortcodes with ArrowCrawl's API.
ReadMeta Ad Library Scraper: Spy on Any Brand's Facebook & Instagram Ads
Use a Meta Ad Library scraper to pull any brand's active Facebook and Instagram ads - copy, creatives, dates, and platforms - with ArrowCrawl's /api/v1/meta-ads, no API key.
ReadCompetitor Price Monitoring: Track Any Marketplace in Real Time
Set up competitor price monitoring across 8 marketplaces: schedule recurring scrapes, get field-level diffs, and fire webhook alerts the instant a price or stock changes.
ReadAmazon Buy Box Monitoring: Get Alerted the Moment You Lose It
Track the Amazon buy box owner and stock in real time, and fire a webhook the instant ownership changes. A practical playbook for buy box monitoring at scale.
ReadWeb Scraping for AI Agents: The MCP Server Guide
Give your AI agent real web access. Learn how ArrowCrawl's native MCP server adds scrape, extract, search, and marketplace tools to Claude, Cursor, and OpenAI.
ReadHow to Scrape Websites Without Getting Blocked (2026 Proxy Guide)
Learn how to scrape without getting blocked in 2026: rotating reputation-scored proxies, header randomization, private JSON APIs, and self-healing selectors.
ReadExtract Structured JSON from Any Website with AI (Zero Schema)
Learn how to extract structured data from any website with AI. ArrowCrawl's /extract auto-infers a schema and returns typed JSON via Claude - no selectors, no config.
ReadHow to Scrape Flipkart Product Data (Price, Stock, Reviews)
Scrape Flipkart product data - price, stock, ratings, and reviews - at scale with batch FSNs, rotating proxies, and scheduled monitoring in one API call.
ReadThe Best Web Scraping APIs in 2026 (Honest Comparison)
An honest 2026 comparison of the best web scraping APIs - Firecrawl, Bright Data, Apify, ScraperAPI, Zyte, and ArrowCrawl - on pricing, proxies, and AI extraction.
ReadArrowCrawl vs Bright Data: Which Web Data Platform Wins?
ArrowCrawl vs Bright Data compared: Bright Data brings huge proxy networks but complex pricing; ArrowCrawl is one simple API with built-in proxies and AI extract.
ReadArrowCrawl vs Apify: Actors vs One Simple API
ArrowCrawl vs Apify compared: Apify is an actor marketplace with dev overhead; ArrowCrawl is one API with engines, proxies, an AI agent, and MCP built in.
ReadArrowCrawl vs ScraperAPI: Beyond Just Proxies
ArrowCrawl vs ScraperAPI compared: ScraperAPI handles proxies and rendering, while ArrowCrawl adds AI extraction, crawl/map, API hunter, marketplaces, MCP, and monitoring.
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