Advanced Shopee Scraping via Mobile Emulation
Introduction: Why Mobile Emulation Succeeds Where Desktop Fails While desktop browser automation increasingly faces sophisticated detection systems, mobile environments present unique opportunities for data extraction at scale. Shopee’s anti-bot defenses, like those of many modern e-commerce platforms, show inherent trust bias toward mobile user sessions – a legacy of mobile commerce growth and the assumption […]
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Advanced Shopee Scraping via Mobile Application Native App API Interception
Introduction As web-based anti-bot systems become increasingly sophisticated, mobile applications represent the next steps for large-scale data extraction. Shopee’s native mobile application, while sharing the same underlying data sources as its web platform, operates through entirely different security protocols and API endpoints that often prove more accessible to skilled reverse engineers. The native app approach […]
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How to Scrape Shopee at Scale: Overcoming Advanced Anti-Bot Detection
Introduction: The Challenge of Modern E-commerce Scraping Shopee stands as one of Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce platforms, but for developers and data scientists, it represents something else entirely: one of the most sophisticated anti-bot defense systems in the e-commerce world. If you’ve attempted to scrape Shopee using traditional methods, you’ve likely encountered frustrating blocks, rate […]
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SQLite vs PostgreSQL in Rails 8
As the Rails framework continues to evolve with version 8, so too do the considerations for building robust and scalable applications. While Rails offers excellent abstraction over databases, the underlying engine you choose SQLite or PostgreSQL being two prime contenders can significantly impact everything from development speed to production stability. SQLite, the default out-of-the-box, offers […]
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