AI-assisted data extraction
Articles from the Zyte blog about AI-assisted data extraction.
New Zyte add-ons: Agent Skills, Codex, GitHub and more updates
A host of additions to Zyte’s agentic scraping toolbelt helps developers go from prompt to working spider code and beyond.
Claude Fable 5 is the new best model for writing scrapers
We ran nine models, including the new GPT-5.6, through our Zyte Scraping Code Benchmark. Claude Fable 5 puts Sol and others in the shade - but it’s pricey, and the best extraction code still depends on the best infrastructure.
The harness matters more than the model - Podcast EP07
"The model is the engine — but the harness is everything else." In Episode 7, we dig into why the infrastructure layer around your AI model matters more than the model itself, rank the best models available right now, and ask whether the open-weighted revolution is about to make frontier subscriptions obsolete.
What's becoming of web scraping developers in the age of AI agents?
AI agents can generate code, suggest selectors, and draft crawl logic. What they can't do is design the system that decides when to stop, what to trust, and how to recover when the web pushes back. That job still belongs to a human.
What multi-agent orchestration looks like in a large-scale web scraping project
Multi-agent orchestration is having its moment. The diagrams are everywhere now. Boxes for planners, boxes for hands, boxes for daemons, arrows to a shared brain, a human floating at the top. They keep getting prettier. The part where the web pushes back is still the part nobody draws.
I built scraping agents for 30 days - here’s what I learned
For the last 30 days, I did one thing almost exclusively: I built scraping systems with AI agents, from the ground up, across real targets, with real deadlines. Not prototypes designed to impress in a demo, not isolated experiments running against a toy website, but production-grade pipelines that needed to ship and keep running.
From screenshot to shopping list in 90 seconds
I built a mood board pipeline that starts with a screenshot. Claude Skills and Zyte API for search, product extraction, and image embedding at any scale.
The Scrapy whisperer: Adrian Chaves on Web Scraping Copilot
An interview with Scrapy maintainer Adrian Chaves on Zyte’s Web Scraping Copilot, AI-generated parsing code, and building reliable scraping workflows.
Code is cheap, show me the talk: How copilots are re-engineering developers
Discover how AI copilots like Zyte’s Web Scraping Copilot are transforming developer workflows—making code a commodity and shifting value to problem-solving and prompting skills.
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.
A data scientist's guide to stress-free product scraping
As a data scientist, your job is to find patterns, build models, and generate insights. To do that, you first need to reliably acquire web data. Competitor pricing, product specifications, consumer reviews - you name it, data scientists need it.