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The author tested multiple methods to scrape Amazon in 2026 and found that standard requests, free proxies, Selenium, and Playwright all fail due to AWS WAF bot controls. Residential proxies from reputable providers combined with proper headers consistently return real HTML content for product pages while avoiding CAPTCHA challenges or error messages.
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