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Articles from the Zyte blog in Zyte API.
12 things I use Zyte MCP for, ranked, with prompts and rules you can copy
What can you use Zyte MCP for? 12 uses, 11 tested, ranked, each with a copy-paste prompt, a CLAUDE.md rule, and a skill idea.
The trouble with variants: Solving the web's infinite ecommerce explosion
Product variants can turn a straightforward ecommerce scraping project into millions of combinations. Learn how to classify, scope and control them.
How I use Zyte MCP to plan web scrapers
Zyte MCP lets my AI agent investigate a site before I write the scraper, so I can decide where the data should come from, compare an API with the rendered page for missing fields, and end up with a crawl plan I can act on.
The anti-ban arms race: Agentic traffic and the fight for the open web
As AI agents transform how we interact with the web, anti-bot systems threaten to fence off the digital open range.
How to convert a website to Markdown for AI: 7 methods compared
Seven realistic ways to turn web pages into clean Markdown for AI - what each method covers, where each breaks, and how to choose for training, RAG and agent pipelines.
Train AI on industry-leading Markdown with Zyte’s new extraction mode
Zyte API can now extract a web page’s main content directly as clean, structured Markdown for AI systems, RAG pipelines and developer workflows.
Introducing Zyte MCP: Powerful web data gathering for your agent
Zyte MCP brings live web access, structured extraction and Scrapy Cloud operations into coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
AI web scraping and scalable data collection
AI changes extraction, adaptation and the cost of adding a source. It does not change access. What is genuinely different, with the arithmetic.
Introducing Zyte CDP support: Your browser automation, our infrastructure
Want to use traditional browser automation frameworks without infrastructure headaches? Tap our new CDP support to run scripts on Zyte’s powerful infrastructure.
Revealed: How retailers use tech to block the bots
The web’s big general marketplaces exist to be browsed by everyone. But they are also the second most defended sector online, shutting the door on AI crawlers.
The web is being priced, not blocked
Zyte's State of Web Access research finds new barriers making web scraping more difficult. We interview the researcher who says that doesn't mean the opportunity is over.
Fashion websites are the hardest to size up
While publishers fight over AI crawlers, fashion has built some of the most heavily defended shop windows on the web. So, which controls are in fashion, in fashion?