response.json() in node-fetch successfully parses invalid JSON containing incomplete UTF-16 surrogate pairs, while native JSON.parse() correctly throws a SyntaxError ...

I have a board (Waveshare ESP32-S3-ETH) configured to fetch OTAs over http_request from a manifest. It doesn't seem to successfully parse the manifest, so I tried doing a similar bit of logic manually ...

Scraping at scale is less about brute force and more about engineering to the web you actually face: dynamic, encrypted, template-driven, and chatty. If your design reflects those realities, ...