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Production Scraping Behind Anti-Bot Defenses: Operable Patterns
Scraping public data behind anti-bot defenses from Node.js: rate limits, identity hygiene, fake 200 responses and fetch paths that hold up under blocking.
17 min readLangChain WebBaseLoader knobs that keep page text and drop chrome
WebBaseLoader fetches pages into Documents. SoupStrainer, headers, SSL, proxies, timeouts, rate limits, and sessions decide whether RAG ingest gets article text or navigation noise.
5 min readWhy raising concurrency causes HTTP 429s: start rate and per-host limits
Raising worker count without shaping start rate and per-host caps creates bursts that trip 429s. Throughput comes from paced concurrency, backoff, and honest queue design.
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