Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Scraping JavaScript-Heavy Sites: When You Need a Web Scraping API
Once a site needs rendering, the real choice is running your own browser fleet or using an API. What each costs to operate, and how to decide per target.
James Meadow · September 15, 2026 How to Handle Infinite Scroll and Dynamic Pagination When Scraping
Can't replay the hidden endpoint? Handle infinite scroll inside the render with scroll chains, load-more clicks and checks for virtualised lists.
Chris Collins · September 15, 2026 How Real Estate Companies Use Web Scraping APIs for Market Intelligence
Property portals are JavaScript-heavy, paginated and localised. How real estate teams use a web scraping API as the collection layer, and what it costs.
Matt Brown · September 14, 2026 Best Web Scraping APIs for Amazon Monitoring and Price Intelligence
The best API for Amazon depends on the job. How the three kinds of API compare, what to test before buying, and where each fits in a price stack.
James Meadow · September 14, 2026 Moving Web Scraping API Data into SQL Databases at Scale
Fetching is the easy half. How to land scraping API output in SQL with idempotent loads, typed fields, schema-drift alerts and provenance intact.
Chris Collins · September 14, 2026 Aggregating Property Listings Across Global Real Estate Portals
Aggregating listings across portals and countries is a normalisation problem. Taxonomies, area units, price semantics and how to reconcile disagreement.
Chris Collins · September 13, 2026 White-Label Data Collection: Managing Many Clients on One Account
White-labelling makes you the data provider of record. What that means for isolation, compliance and pricing, and how to structure one account to do it.
Matt Brown · September 13, 2026 Building a Real-Time Housing Market Data Feed
Housing has no price tick. A real-time feed detects listing events, and its hardest problems are property identity and stable coverage, not speed.
James Meadow · September 12, 2026 Scraping Valuations, Rents & Mortgage Data for PropTech Platforms
Valuations, rents and mortgage rates are three different data problems with three different sources. How to collect each one and label what you collected.
Chris Collins · September 12, 2026