Browserless introduces the Browser Automation Protocol
Browserless has announced a new protocol for browser automation.
Open Source & Tooling
Firecrawl releases Convex component for web scraping integration
Firecrawl announced a new Convex component that allows developers to integrate web scraping capabilities directly into their Convex applications.
Playwright 1.63.0 adds test locks for safe concurrent access to shared resources
Playwright 1.63.0 introduces named test locks that prevent concurrent execution of tests sharing the same lock name across files, workers, and projects.
Puppeteer 25.10.0 adds video-stream screen recording and Firefox 155.0 support
Puppeteer released version 25.10.0 of puppeteer-core, introducing a video-stream-based screen recording feature via page.record() and rolling to Firefox 155.0.
Scrapfly compares 8 Python HTTP clients for web scraping in 2026
Scrapfly published a blog post evaluating eight Python HTTP clients on async support, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS impersonation, and maintenance, with runnable examples.
Scrapfly compares Browser Use and Playwright for web scraping
Scrapfly published a blog post comparing Browser Use and Playwright, covering architectural differences, speed and cost tradeoffs, silent failure risks, and a hybrid approach for production scraping.
Scrapfly compares six modern command-line tools as alternatives to cURL and Wget
A blog post from Scrapfly evaluates HTTPie, aria2, and other tools that address specific limitations of cURL and Wget, including a managed fetch tool for blocked requests.
Scrapfly ranks five open-source LinkedIn scrapers on GitHub by auth model and ban risk
Scrapfly published a blog post evaluating five open-source LinkedIn scraping repositories on GitHub, ranking them by authentication approach, maintenance status, and real-world blocking risk as of August 2026.
Scrapfly ranks four open-source proxy scrapers still viable in 2026
A blog post from Scrapfly filters the crowded open-source proxy tool landscape down to four actively maintained scrapers and checkers worth using this year.
Scrapfly ranks six open-source YouTube scrapers by job, flags two failures
Scrapfly published a blog post comparing six open-source YouTube scrapers, including a GitHub snapshot from August 11, 2026, and noting two projects that failed in their tests.
Scrapfly reviews nine Scrapy extensions and middlewares for 2026
Scrapfly tested nine Scrapy extensions and middlewares against Scrapy 2.18, covering rendering, TLS fingerprints, proxies, extraction, shared queues, and deployment.
Scrapfly rounds up top open-source Facebook Marketplace scrapers on GitHub for 2026
Scrapfly published a blog post listing the five best open-source Facebook Marketplace scrapers on GitHub as of 2026, along with repos to avoid.
Stagehand Python 4.0.3a0.dev1483 adds stagehand_facade tool surface for eval benchmarking
A dev release of Stagehand Python introduces a facade tool surface that allows evals to benchmark the exact byte-identical interface shipped to Claude Code, Codex, and Pi integrations.
Zyte launches 'Modern Scrapy for experienced developers' tutorial series
Zyte published the first part of a new blog series aimed at experienced developers building production-ready Scrapy projects.
Zyte releases scrapy-spidey-sense, a preflight CLI for Scrapy projects
Zyte has open-sourced a command-line tool that performs static analysis on Scrapy projects before a crawl begins, scoring production-readiness and linking findings to fixes.