BASECRAWL JOURNAL

Notes from the data layer.

Practical thinking on crawling, extraction, and the systems that turn a changing web into dependable product data.

LATEST WRITING

Built for people shipping with the web.

Product decisions, crawling patterns, and lessons from building a more reliable document layer.

ENGINEERING

Crawling JavaScript-heavy sites without guessing

Modern sites often ship an empty shell before the content arrives. A dependable crawl needs to know when to fetch, when to render, and when to stop waiting.

Mira Patel8 min read
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DATA

Designing LLM-ready data pipelines from the web

An LLM does not need more raw HTML. It needs current, traceable, well-bounded context that retains the structure and provenance of the source.

Jon Bell9 min read
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