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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.

Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Web scraping APIs

Zyte API is the Successor to Smart Proxy Manager

Smart Proxy Manager (SPM) is being retired for new customers. Zyte’s flagship Web Scraping API, Zyte API, is its worthy successor.

Daniel Cave4 min read
Introducing Zyte API Proxy Mode
Web scraping APIs

Introducing Zyte API Proxy Mode

Zyte API is the next iteration of Zyte’s best-in class proxy and website unblocking technology.

Adrian Chaves3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Web data collection legality

Court Rules Meta's Terms Do Not Prohibit Scraping of Public Data

What does the court ruling that concludes Bright Data did not violate Meta’s terms of service or breach any contract with Meta by scraping public Facebook and Instagram data mean for web scraping.

Sanaea Daruwalla7 min read
Witness the power of web scraped product data for investors

How to use Web Scraping for Lead Generation Data and Sales?

Increase sales getting targeted leads with our lead scraper data solution. Define your target customer with data from industry-specific sources.

1 min read
Web scraping vs web crawling | Zyte

Web scraping vs web crawling | Zyte

What is the difference between web scraping vs web crawling and how can you extract public data at scale.

Colm Kenny3 min read
Proxy management: In-house or off-the-shelf proxy solutions?

How to Work Around Anti-bots? | Zyte

Understand how ethical web scraping works to access public data. It is crucial that you comply with anti-bots systems and requests when scraping web data.

John Campbell6 min read
Python Web Scraper Tools & Libraries
Open-source

Python Web Scraper Tools & Libraries

Everything you need to know about python web scraper tools and libraries including Requests, BeautifulSoup, Selenium and Scrapy.

Colm Kenny6 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Social media and news data extraction: Here's how to do it right

Social media and news data extraction webinar: Learn how to do it right.

James Kehoe30 min read
A crash course in automated ban management — set it and forget it
Leadership

A crash course in automated ban management — set it and forget it

A crash course webinar in automated ban management — set it and forget it.

Cleber Alexandre1 min read
The Web Scraping Maturity Model

The Web Scraping Maturity Model

Improve your ability to assess and evolve your own web scraping projects for maturity, reliability, and scalability, no matter the current size of the operation.

Cleber Alexandre1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Web data collection legality

Compliant Web Scraping Checklist

A handy checklist for assessing the legal compliance of your web scraping project.

Sanaea Daruwalla4 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Announcement

Celebrating Ethics in Web Scraping With the EWDCI Certification

Zyte prioritizes ethical web scraping, driving industry maturity through co-founding the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI).

Sanaea Daruwalla4 min read