AI Agents and Proxies
Agents that browse need geo-correct egress, rate-limit awareness and auditability. How to give each agent an identity, control sessions and bound retry costs.
by LightningBytes Team
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Browser automation articles
Every LightningBytes article tagged Browser automation. View all articles
13 articles
Human-Like Behaviour in Automation
What behavioural detection actually measures, which patterns are worth emulating, and why consistency beats randomness in the timing signals platforms track.
by LightningBytes Team
Running Scrapers and Proxies in Docker
Containerising a scraper: handling headless Chrome, passing proxy credentials safely, image size, and the shared-memory problem that crashes browsers.
by LightningBytes Team
Benchmarking Browser Automation Setups
How to design a benchmark that actually predicts production: same target, same proxies, measuring success rate, time and cost per page rather than raw speed.
by LightningBytes Team
Playwright MCP: Setup and Use Cases
Using the Playwright MCP server so an AI agent can drive a browser, with a proxy configured so the agent's traffic is geo-correct and rate-aware.
by LightningBytes Team
Scraping Browsers Explained
The difference between a local headless browser and a managed scraping browser, what you actually buy with the latter, and how to evaluate the trade-off.
by LightningBytes Team
Browser Automation Tools Compared
Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium and managed scraping browsers compared on language support, waiting behaviour, parallel contexts and proxy handling.
by LightningBytes Team
Using FlareSolverr with Proxies
What FlareSolverr does, how to wire it into a scraper, its real limitations, and why it is a workaround rather than a durable strategy for defended targets.
by LightningBytes Team
Working Through CAPTCHAs in Automation
Why challenges appear, how to lower the risk score so they stop, and an honest assessment of solver services including cost, accuracy and terms of use.
by LightningBytes Team
Puppeteer Web Scraping: A Practical Guide
Puppeteer scraping in Node: launch arguments, proxy configuration, waiting strategies, memory management across many pages, and when headless is overkill.
by LightningBytes Team
Playwright vs Selenium for Scraping and Automation
A practical comparison of Playwright and Selenium for scraping: waiting semantics, context isolation, proxy handling, language support and when each fits.
by LightningBytes Team
Playwright Scraping with Proxies
Configuring proxies per browser and per context in Playwright, running parallel identities safely, and cutting bandwidth with request interception.
by LightningBytes Team
Selenium Proxy Setup and Rotation
Configuring proxies in Selenium for Chrome and Firefox, handling proxy authentication, and rotating endpoints across driver instances safely.
by LightningBytes Team
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