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Building OEM Hunter

3 parts

Nov 15, 2025·5 min read

Building OEM Hunter, Part 1: Why Automotive Parts Sites Are a Mess (and How I Architected Around It)

Finding OEM parts across 18+ supplier sources is entirely manual. I decided to build a scraper orchestrator. Here's the architecture I landed on and why the naive approach doesn't work.

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Dec 2, 2025·4 min read

Building OEM Hunter, Part 2: Beating Automotive WAF Protection with Camoufox

Standard scrapers get blocked immediately on most dealer sites. Here's the fingerprinting problem, why Playwright alone doesn't solve it, and how Camoufox changed everything.

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Dec 18, 2025·5 min read

Building OEM Hunter, Part 3: The Part Number Normalization Problem Nobody Warns You About

After getting 14 plugins returning data, I had a new problem: the same part appeared in four different formats across sources. Exact matching missed 60% of cross-source results. Here's how I fixed it.

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