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Ian Kerins

Marketing & Growth Strategist

Ian's posts focus heavily on how hedge funds and investors use web-scraped alternative data — product pricing, e-commerce data at scale (up to 100 billion pages), and GDPR-compliant crawling — alongside proxy-management strategy and Zyte's automatic-extraction API and Spidermon monitoring tool.

Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Proxies

The challenges e-commerce retailers face managing their web scraping proxies

E-commerce companies are increasingly using web data scraping for their competitor research, pricing, and new product research.

Ian Kerins7 min read
How to use XPath to extract web data
Leadership

Visual web scraping tools no longer fit your purpose?

No matter how sophisticated some Visual Web Scraping tools look, users often run into issues. Our blog helps the users chart the best approach to web scraping.

Ian Kerins6 min read
Zyte A.I. Automatic Extraction API | e-commerce & articles
AI-assisted data extraction

Zyte A.I. Automatic Extraction API | e-commerce & articles

AI-powered Automatic Extraction API for e-commerce & article extraction. capable of automatically identifying common items on web pages to extract.

Ian Kerins3 min read
How to use XPath to extract web data
Data quality

Spidermon: Zyte's secret to data quality

Unveil Spidermon's role in our data quality assurance. Elevate confidence in the reliability of your web-scraped data.

Ian Kerins5 min read
Proxy management: In-house or off-the-shelf proxy solutions?
Proxies

Proxy management: In-house or off-the-shelf proxy solutions?

This article helps you decide whether you should handle your proxy management in house or by using third party proxy solutions like scraping APIs.

Ian Kerins7 min read
The rise of web data in hedge fund decision making
Web data application

The rise of web data in hedge fund decision making

Learn about the rise of web data in hedge fund decision making and the importance of data quality in this blog post.

Ian Kerins8 min read
Witness the power of web scraped product data for investors
Use case

Witness the power of web scraped product data for investors

Investors understand the importance of high-quality information. Learn how Eagle Alpha predicted GoPro's quarterly revenues using web scraped alternative data.

Ian Kerins6 min read
Autoscraping Casts A Wider Net
Developer interest

Looking Back at 2018: A Year of Growth and Challenges

Looking Back at 2018 - Join us in reminiscing about the highlights and achievements of the year 2018.

Ian Kerins4 min read
EuroPython 2015: Uniting Pythonistas in Europe
Developer interest

Shubber Gettogether 2018: Gathering Innovators and Thinkers

Shubber Gettogether 2018 - Relive the excitement of the Shubber Gettogether in 2018, where experts gathered to discuss cutting-edge web scraping techniques.

Ian Kerins3 min read
A Career in Remote Working: Embracing Flexibility and Freedom
Data quality

Data Quality Assurance For Enterprise Web Scraping

Data quality is essential to the success of any web scraping project, especially when scraping the web at scale.

Ian Kerins7 min read
Web Scraping Price Monitoring
Use case

Price intelligence: Scraping 100 billion products pages

Price Intelligence experience scraping over 100 billion product pages. Learn the best practices and demands of extracting product data from e-commerce stores.

Ian Kerins10 min read
A Sneak Peek Inside What Hedge Funds Think of Alternative Financial Data
Use case

A Sneak Peek Inside What Hedge Funds Think of Alternative Financial Data

A Sneak Peek Inside What Hedge Funds Think of Alternative Financial Data - Gain insights into the perspective of hedge funds on alternative financial data, offering a glimpse into the world of investment strategies.

Ian Kerins4 min read
Want To Predict Fitbit’s Quarterly Revenue? Eagle Alpha Did It Using Web Scraped Product Data
Use case

Want To Predict Fitbit’s Quarterly Revenue? Eagle Alpha Did It Using Web Scraped Product Data

Throughout the history of the financial markets information has been power. The trader with access to the most accurate information can quickly gain an edge

Ian Kerins7 min read
Custom Crawling & News API: Design A Web Scraping Solution
Use case

GDPR Compliance Tools for Web Scraping Crawlers

GDPR Compliance Tools for Web Scraping Crawlers - Stay compliant with GDPR regulations using these essential tools designed for web scraping and data extraction.

Ian Kerins5 min read
Scraping The Steam Game Store With Scrapy
Open-source

Scraping The Steam Game Store With Scrapy

This is a guest post from the folks over at Intoli, one of the awesome companies providing Scrapy commercial support and longtime Scrapy fans.

Ian Kerins13 min read