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Discussion on: Web Scraping Tools Comparison 2026: requests vs curl_cffi vs Playwright vs Scrapy

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Double CHEN

Good decision tree. The "Moderate anti-bot -> Playwright + stealth patches" node is where I kept bleeding time - keeping playwright-stealth patches in sync with Chromium updates became a side job. Switched to running those scrapes through the browser-act CLI instead (stealth fingerprinting baked in, one stealth-extract or session-based navigate per site), which lets me skip the patch chain. Still use curl_cffi below the JS-required line - nothing beats its impersonate speed.