FourA Blog

Product updates, engineering insights, and industry analysis from FourA — the intelligent data collection platform.

Redirect Control and Raw Buffer Mode

FourA's API now supports configurable redirect limits and raw binary responses. Two options that change how you handle real-world scraping edge cases.

FourA Digest — Mar 31 to Apr 8, 2026

Docs site launched, Google sign-up went live, and the health dashboard now shows 30-day uptime history. Plus: Plausible analytics across every property.

Web Scraping Tarpits: Who Actually Gets Caught

Websites are deploying tarpits that trap AI crawlers and feed them garbage data. But these traps don't distinguish between GPTBot and your price tracker.

Travel Fare Monitoring: Real-Time Pricing Data at Scale

Airlines change their prices hundreds of times per day per route. Here's how travel companies collect real-time fare data at scale without getting blocked.

The FourA Documentation Site Is Live

Full API reference, guides, how-to tutorials, and troubleshooting are now live at foura.ai/docs. Everything developers need to get started with FourA.

March 2026: What We Shipped

Docs site, blog, analytics dashboard, status page, and smart proxy routing all shipped in March. Here's the complete rundown of what went out the door.

This Week at FourA: March 24-30, 2026

Smart proxy routing, dashboard analytics, doc improvements, and bug fixes shipped last week. Here's everything that went live at FourA, March 24 to 30.

Building a Real-Time Price Tracker With FourA

Competitor prices shift hourly. Here's how to build an automated price tracker across hundreds of product pages with a single API call and basic Python.

AI Agents Are Driving the Next Wave of Web Scraping

Autonomous AI agents are now the fastest-growing customer segment in web scraping. Here's what their demand for real-time data means for your infrastructure.