I've tried for weeks to build my own ScrapingBee but I'll keep paying $99/mo

I've tried for weeks now to build my own @ScrapingBee and repeatedly AI has now told me that it can't do it
80% of my scraping is Google SERP results for Hotelist and even with residential IP proxies and solve CAPTCHA services and OpenSERP scraper it won't do it well for thousands of queries, it just gets blocked
So I will keep paying them $99/mo
A good test to see what services might remain now AGI is here
My only remaining SaaS now are:
- Cloudflare Domains
- Cloudflare Email Sending
- Cloudflare R2 Storage (for Photo AI mostly and Litestream DB backups)
- Backblaze B2 for backups
- Hetzner for all my servers for all my sites (VPS)
- xAI for all LLMs for all my sites (so many things like moderation, writing emails, anything)
- Scrapingbee
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