https://proooxy.com/tags/architecture/Recent content in Architecture on Proooxy — Web Scraping Tools & Data-as-a-ServiceHugoen-usWed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://proooxy.com/blog/web-scraping-best-practices-2026/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://proooxy.com/blog/web-scraping-best-practices-2026/<p>After building and maintaining 10 production scrapers that serve over 2,700 users with &gt;99% success rates, here are the practices that actually matter.</p> <h2 id="architecture-think-in-pipelines-not-scripts">Architecture: Think in Pipelines, Not Scripts</h2> <p>The biggest mistake I see is treating scraping as a single-step process. Production scrapers are data pipelines:</p> <ol> <li><strong>URL Discovery</strong> — find what to scrape (sitemaps, category pages, search, APIs)</li> <li><strong>Request Execution</strong> — fetch the data with proper retry and rotation</li> <li><strong>Parsing</strong> — extract structured fields from raw responses</li> <li><strong>Normalization</strong> — clean, validate, and standardize the output</li> <li><strong>Storage</strong> — push to datasets, databases, or downstream systems</li> </ol> <p>Each step should be independently testable and retryable. When Sephora changes their product page layout, only step 3 needs updating — the rest of the pipeline stays stable.</p>