Episode 10 of the Zyte podcast is out, and it is one of the widest-ranging conversations we have recorded this year. John Rooney sits down with Neha Setia Nagpal and Ayan Pahwa for an unfiltered, all-in-style chat covering everything the team has been building, reading, and arguing about lately.
On the table: what "agentic web scraping" actually means once you get past the demos, and why harness engineering, not bigger skills, might be the more useful thing to invest in right now. John also walks through a new Scrapy extensibility update, the scrapy-playwright browser providers that make it easier to drop in stealthier browser tools without losing Scrapy's request and response cycle.
There is also a first look at a new fingerprinting signal quietly landing in Chrome, a CPU performance grade that sits alongside the fingerprinting checks anti-bot teams already watch for, plus a rundown of a few tools the community has been sharing lately and a preview of what to expect at Extract Summit in Austin this October and Dublin this November.
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The full episode is available now as audio and on video.
