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.
Web scraping finally has a home in the IDE
Discover how web scraping is moving into the IDE. Learn how tools like VS Code and AI-assisted extensions are streamlining scraper development, testing, and maintenance.
Introducing Web Scraping Copilot 1.0: AI-accelerated web scraping inside VS Code
Discover Web Scraping Copilot 1.0, Zyte’s VS Code extension that uses AI to generate, test, and deploy production-ready Scrapy spiders faster while maintaining full developer control.
Build your own MCP server: LLMs meets web data with Zyte API
Learn how to build your own Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to connect LLMs with real-time web data using Zyte API, FastMCP, and the Docker MCP toolkit.
More data, more trouble: How a perfect corpus corrupted my AI dream
A failed AI experiment reveals why adding more data doesn’t always improve LLM outputs. Learn when web scraping, RAG, and curated datasets actually make AI better.
Claude skills, MCP or Web Scraping Copilot: Which should you choose?
Compare Claude skills, MCP servers, and Web Scraping Copilot to understand when to use each for AI-powered web scraping, data extraction, and production pipelines with Zyte API.
Supercharging web scraping with Claude skills
Learn how Claude skills can automate HTML fetching, AI parsing, selector generation, and structured data extraction to build faster, smarter web scraping workflows.
Is your AI breaking the law? Legal experts’ advice for web scrapers
Legal experts discuss how AI, web scraping, copyright law, and the EU AI Act intersect—covering fair use, data provenance, and compliance risks for businesses.
Brewing a bot: RAG and web data fuel the perfect coffee recommendation
Learn how to build a real-time AI chatbot using RAG, web scraping, Zyte API, LangChain, and OpenAI. Scrape JavaScript-heavy websites, store data in a vector database, and generate accurate answers from fresh web data.
Beyond text: Unlocking value on the multimedia web
The web is about more than the written word. Why companies are racing to harness the power of video, audio and pictures.
Teaching AI to scrape like a pro: how we measure LLMs’ data quality
AI-enabled code editors can now conjure scraping code on command. But is it any good? Here’s how Zyte re-engineered LLMs with Web Scraping Copilot to drive best-in-class output.
API-first scraping: Extraction for the modern web
This is the "API-first" method, a workflow that turns brittle, complex parsing jobs into clean, reliable, high-velocity JSON pipelines.
Sun, sea and code: What we built at Zyte’s API hackathon
Discover the 7 creative projects built at Zyte’s API Hackathon in Turkey, from security scanning tools to price comparison engines and smart caching systems.
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