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Scrapfly publishes guide to scraping Kayak flight data with its SDK

Scrapfly released a blog post walking through the process of scraping Kayak flight search results using its own SDK, covering JavaScript rendering and parsing internal poll JSON.

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Why it matters

Travel aggregators like Kayak are notoriously difficult to scrape due to heavy JavaScript rendering and anti-bot measures. This guide demonstrates how Scrapfly positions its SDK as a solution for a high-value scraping use case, potentially driving adoption among developers targeting travel data. It also highlights the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between travel sites and scrapers.

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Topics: Scrapfly, Kayak, travel-scraping, javascript-rendering, kayak, scrapfly-sdk, flight-data