Field notes from the world of data extraction.
Articles, interviews and analysis on how data is gathered, used and fought over — written by the people closest to it.

Unblockers vs Zyte API: What’s the Real Cost of Bans?
Not all unblockers are equal. Learn how Zyte API automates unblocking and why predictable success rates save more than cheap bandwidth.

Partial autonomy, full control: Why we built Web Scraping Copilot
Web Scraping Copilot brings AI-powered, code-first web scraping into VS Code, delivering partial autonomy, deterministic quality, and full control for production web data.

Why your spiders keep getting banned, and how to fix it
Learn why scrapers get blocked and how modern unblocking APIs like Zyte API automate ban handling for faster, more reliable data extraction.

New in Zyte: Web Scraping Copilot, LLM-friendly text, MCP scraping
Discover Zyte’s latest: Web Scraping Copilot, LLM-ready page content, new Zyte API features, enterprise tools, webinars, and Extract Summit talks on-demand.

Five key takeaways from Extract Summit 2025
From AI-accelerated scraping to “dead internet” risks and rising access wars, these five takeaways from Extract Summit 2025 show where web data is heading next.

Introducing Web Scraping Copilot - A rocket boost for data extractors
Meet Web Scraping Copilot: your AI-powered coding partner for Scrapy in VS Code.

Web scraping as social practice: Ethics and efficiency in a data-hungry world
Web scraping is more than a technical act, it’s a social practice. Explore ethical scraping principles, responsible data collection, and how to balance efficiency with respect for data and people.

Extract clean content automatically with Zyte API’s new pageContent data type
Discover how Zyte API’s new PageContent data type makes content extraction effortless — delivering clean, structured data from any web page automatically.

Balancing innovation and regulation in data scraping
Weighing your options from full control to full service.

The new economics of web data: Smaller scraping just got cheaper
Discover how AI and new scraping tech are lowering costs, removing the “scale tax,” and making web data access affordable for smaller teams.

Why your agent deserves a wallet
Acting autonomously on tasks like data gathering, financially-empowered agents could change the economics of the web.

Memo to CTOs: Don’t build the product
Zyte’s CTO says great tech leaders don’t work on software, they work systems that make software.




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