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.
XPath Tips From The Web Scraping Trenches
XPath is helpful for web scraping, allowing to write specifications more flexibly than CSS selectors. This tutorial is packed with XPath tips and examples.
Introducing Data Reviews: Unlocking Insights with Zyte
Introducing Data Reviews - Empower your decision-making with data reviews. Gain insights into data quality and credibility for your web scraping projects.
Extract Schema.Org Microdata with Scrapy Selectors
Web pages are full of data. Microdata markup helps machines understand pages. Schema.org supports a set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages.
Portia: The Open-Source Visual Web Scraper
As you can see, Portia allows you to visually configure what’s crawled and extracted in a very natural way. It provides immediate feedback, making the process
Optimizing Memory Usage Of Scikit-Learn Models Using Succinct Tries
We use the scikit-learn library for various machine-learning tasks at Zyte. For example, for text classification we'd typically build a statistical
Open source at Zyte
Open Source at Zyte, Now Zyte - Embrace the open-source movement at Zyte. Learn how we contribute to the community and promote transparency.
Open Source | Zyte | Looking Back At 2013
Looking Back at 2013 - Join us as we reflect on the highlights and achievements of Zyte in 2013. See how far we've come in the web scraping industry.
Marcos Campal Is A ScrapingHubber!
Marcos Campal is a Zyteber - Get to know one of our talented team members, Marcos Campal. Learn about his contributions to the world of web scraping.
Introducing Dash
Introducing Dash - Discover Dash, a new tool designed to simplify web scraping. Learn how to leverage its capabilities for better data extraction.
Why MongoDB Is A Bad Choice For Storing Scraped Data
MongoDB was used early on at Zyte to store scraped data because it's convenient. Scraped data is represented as (possibly nested) records which can be
Introducing Smart Proxy Manager
Introducing Zyte Smart Proxy Manager - Enhance your web scraping with Smart Proxy Manager. Explore its powerful features and benefits as a smart proxy manager.
Git Workflow For Scrapy Projects
Git Workflow for Scrapy Projects - Streamline your Scrapy projects with an efficient Git workflow. Improve collaboration and project management.