Joe Amditis

Web scraping with anti-bot bypass, content extraction, undocumented APIs and poison pill detection. Use when extracting content from websites, handling paywalls, implementing scraping cascades or processing social media. Covers requests, trafilatura, Playwright with stealth mode, yt-dlp and instaloader patterns.

Academic writing, research methodology, and scholarly communication workflows. Use when writing papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, conducting research, managing citations, preparing for peer review, choosing OA routes under Plan S / 2026 OSTP Nelson Memo, posting preprints, working with persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI, ROR), assigning CRediT contributor roles, preregistering analyses on OSF / AsPredicted, or disclosing LLM use to journals and funders. Essential for researchers, graduate students, and academics across disciplines.

Web page monitoring, change detection, and availability tracking. Use when tracking content changes, detecting when pages go down, monitoring for updates, preserving content before deletion, or generating feeds for pages without RSS. Covers Visualping, ChangeTower, Distill.io, and self-hosted monitoring solutions.