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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.

Mastering data harmony: Techniques for matching and deduplication of scraped data

Mastering data harmony: Techniques for matching and deduplication of scraped data

Arnold Alexander1 min read
Learn web scraping at scale: Ban avoidance, browser automation, and AI-powered extraction

Learn web scraping at scale: Ban avoidance, browser automation, and AI-powered extraction

Arnold Alexander1 min read
Exploring the Frontier of AI Scraping - A fireside chat with Zyte's Tech Leaders
Leadership

Exploring the Frontier of AI Scraping - A fireside chat with Zyte's Tech Leaders

Learn about exploring the frontier of AI scraping.

Arnold Alexander1 min read
Web Scraping vs Data Mining |  What's the Difference?
Web data collection

Web Scraping vs Data Mining | What's the Difference?

Understand the similarities between data mining and web scraping. While they are different processes, both data mining and web scraping aim to achieve similar goals.

Sarah Lang5 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Open-source

The Scraper’s System Part 2: Explorer’s Compass to analyze websites

Learn about the scrapers system: Explorer’s Compass to analyze websites.

Neha Setia Nagpal8 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Proxies

The challenges e-commerce retailers face managing their web scraping proxies

E-commerce companies are increasingly using web data scraping for their competitor research, pricing, and new product research.

Ian Kerins7 min read
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
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
A thin line of identical white strips crosses scattered web page cards, then a single page opens into a dense grid of colorful data tiles.

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.

3 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