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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.

Data in 2026: Bets and forecasts from web experts
Open-source

A Deep Dive into Zyte's Open-Source Libraries

Discover how Zyte’s open-source libraries like ClearHTML, Extruct, Chomp.js, and more simplify web data extraction and processing.

Neha Setia Nagpal1 min read
AI Web Scraping as the Future of Scalable Data Collection
Integration

Analyze web data quickly with Jupyter Notebooks and Zyte API

With AI Scraping in Zyte API, you can pull data from any e-commerce website straight into your Jupyter notebooks.

Neha Setia Nagpal2 min read
Advanced session management with Scrapy
How To

Advanced session management with Scrapy

Master advanced session management with Scrapy-Zyte-API. Learn techniques to optimize efficiency, streamline workflows, and gain full control over your web scraping processes.

Sigit Dewanto2 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Building a Web Crawler in Python

Learn to build a Python web crawler using libraries like BeautifulSoup, Requests, Scrapy, and Selenium.

8 min read
Overcoming web scraping challenges of Puppeteer and Playwright
Scraping practice

Overcoming web scraping challenges of Puppeteer and Playwright

Explore issues like browser farm management, IP rotation, and anti-scraping measures that can complicate large-scale operations.

Neha Setia Nagpal1 min read
Designing a fair and predictable pricing model for Web Scraping APIs
Web scraping APIs

Designing a fair and predictable pricing model for Web Scraping APIs

Discover how Zyte practices performance-based pricing and a customer-first approach to reshape web data extraction services.

Theresia Tanzil5 min read
Exploring Customer-Centric Pricing in Web Scraping APIs: A Fireside Chat
How To

Exploring Customer-Centric Pricing in Web Scraping APIs: A Fireside Chat

Discover how Zyte’s leaders envision performance-based pricing and a customer-first approach reshaping web data extraction services.

Iván Sánchez1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Using Data Extraction Tools for Efficient Website Scraping

Using data extraction tools makes web scraping challenges possible to overcome. Explore more in this article.

8 min read
How Session Management Minimizes Bans and Enhances Data Quality in Web Scraping
Anti-ban

How Session Management Minimizes Bans and Enhances Data Quality in Web Scraping

Learn how managing user sessions in web scraping can help overcome website bans, handle IP rate limits, streamline cookie management, and avoid detection.

Neha Setia Nagpal1 min read
Efficient Web Scraping with LLMs
How To

Efficient Web Scraping with LLMs

In this hands-on workshop hosted by Iván Sánchez, you'll learn how to harness the incredible power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle your toughest scraping challenges.

Iván Sánchez2 min read
No wait, no upfront costs: How Zyte transformed its data delivery business with AI
AI-assisted data extraction

No wait, no upfront costs: How Zyte transformed its data delivery business with AI

Zyte has just launched a service that reshapes how businesses source web data feeds. With zero setup fees and a scalable, on-demand model, companies can now add data sources from any website without traditional wait times or high upfront costs.

Cleber Alexandre10 min read
How to Simplify and Reduce Costs with Web Scraping APIs
Web scraping APIs

How to Simplify and Reduce Costs with Web Scraping APIs

Discover how Web Scraping API reduces infrastructure costs and automates resource allocation for efficient, scalable web scraping.

Cleber Alexandre10 min read