Monitoring XHR requests while interacting with the chat often reveals direct API calls that can be scraped more efficiently.

Invisible CAPTCHAs triggered by unusual patterns are harder to detect. Mimicking human behavior helps avoid them entirely.

Introducing human-like behaviors, like small pauses between scrolling and clicking, makes the bot behavior less predictable.

Some sites offer high-resolution downloads, so I scrape these versions to improve the OCR output compared to low-quality images.

In some cases, switching to a local version of the site’s domain (like .fr for France) can reveal region-specific content without proxies.