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.

Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Antiban Evasion Systems

Adding AI to the Web Scraping Tech Stack
AI is effective for helping teams scale up the creation and maintenance of web crawlers and extractors making it easy to add new sources to solve additional business cases.

Scraped Data Quality
Making sure your web data is trustworthy when web scraping at scale is incredibly important, so one of the defining success factors is a comprehensive quality assurance (QA) process.

Web Scraping at Scale
Web scraping at scale requires a plan to be successful. You need to define the business case, success metrics, data needed and budget.

Legal Compliance for Web Scraping Project
Operating legal and ethical web scraping projects for legal compliance at scale needs legal oversight by lawyers with a specialization in web scraping.

The New Guide to Web Scraping at Scale
The challenges of scaling web scraping are underestimated. This whitepaper shares what to consider when scaling your web scraping efforts from planning and design, legal compliance, crawling and extracting, and quality assurance.

Key Questions for Scaling Web Scraping
Here are some questions to ask your team and partners that can help you with your web scraping scaling journey.

In-House vs. Outsourced Web Scraping for Scalability
This article compares the pros and cons of in-house vs. outsourced web scraping, focusing on cost, expertise, scalability, and control to guide business decisions.

Scaling and Maintaining Crawling and Extracting Solutions
A robust, responsive and reliable web scraping tech stack is key to scaling.

How to eliminate setup and maintenance on your headless browser fleet for web scraping

From Data to Decisions: Transforming Digital Shelf Analytics with Zyte API
Maximize DSA with Zyte API Web Scraping: Leverage Zyte API's advanced web scraping technology for your DSA needs. Extract precise, scalable data for product positioning, pricing strategies, and market trends analysis. Stay ahead with our legally compliant, flexible, and cost-effective solutions.

Use Powerful Ban Management With Zyte API’s Scripting API
You encounter so many different anti-bot systems as a developer working on custom projects for Zyte Data clients. This cat and mouse game requires your time, persistence and deep knowledge of web scraping.