--- title: Best Crawling posts — January 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Crawling posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/crawling/best-of/2025/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/crawling/best-of/2025/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Crawling posts — January 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Crawling posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Crawling — January 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/5-agentic-ai-design-patterns-nk1ftklkv "5 Agentic AI Design Patterns") Article Daily Dose of Data Science | Avi Chawla | Substack · 2y 5 Agentic AI Design Patterns Explore five agentic AI design patterns that enhance the effectiveness of AI agents through reflection, tool use, reason and act, planning, and multi-agent approaches. Learn how Firecrawl Extract facilitates web scraping by using simple English prompts to extract clean, structured data. Discover additional resources on machine learning techniques and data science provided by Daily Dose of Data Science. 294 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/web-scraping-101-a-million-dollar-saas-idea-natujtswp "Web Scraping 101: A Million Dollar SaaS Idea") Video Tech With Tim · 2y Web Scraping 101: A Million Dollar SaaS Idea The post explores a web scraping SaaS idea with high potential, targeting influencer marketing inefficiencies. It outlines a project to build a system that identifies video sponsorships on YouTube, including detailed steps for data collection and analysis using Bright Data's web scraping API. The project aims to help companies find suitable influencers and track competitors, while addressing challenges like scaling data collection and handling API token limits. 263 4 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/lightpanda-io-browser-the-open-source-browser-made-for-headless-usage-rwyptlsc8 "lightpanda-io/browser: The open-source browser made for headless usage") Article Community Picks · 2y lightpanda-io/browser: The open-source browser made for headless usage Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser designed for efficient web automation, AI agents, LLM training, scraping, and testing. It features a significantly lower memory footprint and faster execution times compared to Chrome. The browser supports Javascript execution and web APIs, is compatible with tools like Playwright and Puppeteer, and is built using the Zig programming language. Installation and configuration instructions are provided for both Linux and MacOS. 86 1 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-real-estate-monitoring-system-ykqr2xrdg "Building a Real Estate Monitoring System") Video Oxylabs · 2y Building a Real Estate Monitoring System Alex discusses building a real estate monitoring system, focusing on the types of data that can be extracted from real estate websites, the use cases for the extracted data including price comparisons and market trends, and the challenges faced such as getting fresh data, overcoming anti-bot measures, and scaling the system. He then advises using Oxylabs' Real Estate Scraper API to handle these challenges efficiently. 50 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/server-side-react-that-renders-as-png-pdf-or-interactive-webapp-8qzel7iv2 "Server-side React that renders as png, pdf, or interactive webapp") Article swizec.com · 2y Server-side React that renders as png, pdf, or interactive webapp React can be rendered as PNG, PDF, static HTML, or an interactive webapp by simply changing the URL. This process involves server-side rendering (SSR) with components supporting css-in-js and data loading via useQuery. Different formats of rendering are controlled by query parameters in the URL, using TanStack Start and TanStack Router alongside Puppeteer. The approach aims for sophisticated rendering with minimal effort from product engineers. 44 3 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/create-project-less-python-utilities-with-uv-and-inline-script-metadata-tfjtlemvb "Create Project-Less Python Utilities with uv and Inline Script Metadata") Article Planet Python · 2y Create Project-Less Python Utilities with uv and Inline Script Metadata Learn how to create and run Python utility scripts with inline metadata using uv. This method avoids the need for a full Python project and simplifies dependency management by embedding metadata directly into the script. The post provides an example script for searching and fetching details from the Google Books API, along with additional examples for summarizing YouTube videos and scraping articles. 24 1 7. 7 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-powerful-web-scrapers-with-ai---3-steps-evgewtu1y "How to Build Powerful Web Scrapers with AI - 3 Steps") Video Aaron Jack · 2y How to Build Powerful Web Scrapers with AI - 3 Steps Combining AI with web scraping has enormous potential, providing a way to create applications and services by extracting and transforming data from the web efficiently. The post details the challenges of traditional web scraping, such as brittle scripts and diverse HTML structures, and explains how AI can standardize this process. It includes step-by-step methods using tools like Puppeteer, Selenium, and proxies to avoid detection and manage large-scale scraping. 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