Lucas Ferreira
Scraping Engineer
At EveryInfra Lucas handles browser fingerprinting for our web APIs.
Education
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, B.S. Computer Science (2010–2014)
Previous roles
- Oxylabs (Vilnius, remote) — Scraping Engineer → Principal Engineer (2016–2024)
Articles by Lucas Ferreira
- Firecrawl Alternatives: Seven Scraping Options Priced per 1,000 Pages and per 1,000 Results
Firecrawl alternatives compared per 1,000 pages and per 1,000 results, with 26 live calls on TikTok comments, Maps reviews, Amazon and failed calls.
- Apify Twitter Scraper Alternative: Search, Profile Posts and Replies per 1,000 Rows, Measured
Apify Tweet Scraper V2 lists $0.40 per 1,000 tweets. Our measured search cost was $0.0033. Replies were 10-25x cheaper, but capped at 50 per post.
- Reddit Ends RSS on Nov 13: What Changes for Monitoring
Reddit stops all RSS feeds on November 13, 2026. Before the cutoff, we pulled RSS and a data API at the same moment. The posts matched. Fields, rate limits and comment threads did not.
- Why Reddit Comment Collection Is Incomplete: Don't Treat MoreComments as Empty Data
Explain Reddit comment trees, the meaning of limit in PRAW replace_more, unexpanded placeholders, and comment count discrepancies, and learn how to pass collection gaps, reply relationships, and deletion handling into analytical results.
- Douyin Comments API: Scrape Comments from a Video URL to JSON with Replies
Start with live parameters for douyin.comments, read comments using minimal requests, preserve video source, comment IDs, and reply relationships, and handle limits, empty results, timestamp parsing, and repeated observations.