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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.

Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Antiban Evasion Systems

Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Antiban Evasion Systems

Arnold Alexander1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

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.

Anita Clarke3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Scraping practice

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.

Linda Giuliano2 min read
Scraping At Scale Planning

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.

Anita Clarke7 min read
Legal Compliance for Web Scraping Project

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.

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

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.

Anita Clarke3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Scraping strategy

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.

Anita Clarke3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

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.

Anita Clarke4 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Scraping practice

Scaling and Maintaining Crawling and Extracting Solutions

A robust, responsive and reliable web scraping tech stack is key to scaling.

Linda Giuliano2 min read
How to eliminate setup and maintenance on your headless browser fleet for web scraping
Product Update

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

Cleber Alexandre1 min read
From Data to Decisions: Transforming Digital Shelf Analytics with Zyte API
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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.

Debbie Reeve-Crook4 min read
Use Powerful Ban Management With Zyte API’s Scripting API
Anti-ban

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.

Mushtaq Ali, Luiz Silva5 min read