Web data
Articles from the Zyte blog about Web data.
Hybrid scraping: The architecture for the modern web
Learn how hybrid scraping combines headless browsers and lightweight HTTP clients to bypass JavaScript challenges efficiently. Reduce RAM usage, improve speed, and scale your web scraping pipelines with session reuse and TLS fingerprinting.
Your business doesn’t care about scraping - it cares about data
Web scraping isn’t the competitive advantage it used to be. Learn why shifting to a scraping API helps engineers reclaim time, reduce maintenance, and focus on delivering reliable data.
AI and the web: What 2025 changed and what comes next
2025 was the year AI learned to reason. From reasoning-first LLMs to autonomous agents and a reshaped web economy, this retrospective explores what changed—and what’s coming next.
AI’s legal frontier: What Europe’s privacy regulators say about scraping personal data
Explore how EU privacy regulators view AI web scraping, lawful bases like legitimate interest, risks of collecting personal data, and compliance best practices.
Beyond the block: The front line of data access
A deep dive into the evolving battle for web data access—featuring insights from Castle, Scrapoxy, and Zyte at Extract Summit 2025. Learn how AI, anti-bots, economics, and authentication standards like Web Bot Auth are transforming scraping, security, and the future of the open internet.
How to build a daily industry news digest
Learn how data analyst Anshika Khandelwal automated a daily AI funding news digest using n8n and Zyte API. Discover how to pull articles, classify funding stories, and deliver a curated newsletter that saves 10+ hours per week.
Scraping a synthetic web: Dead Internet Theory meets web data extraction
AI-generated content now dominates the web. Explore the rise of synthetic internet traffic, how bots shape online discourse, and how data experts can fight back.
Key takeaways from the Getty v. Stability AI UK ruling
Explore what the UK Getty v. Stability AI ruling means for web scraping and AI developers, from jurisdiction and copyright risk to trademarks and EU compliance.
How an analytics platform solved a ‘hard-to-scrape’ site using Zyte API
See how Zyte API automatically unblocked a major e-commerce site, cutting costs and boosting success rates from 60% to 98%.
Unblockers vs Zyte API: What’s the Real Cost of Bans?
Not all unblockers are equal. Learn how Zyte API automates unblocking and why predictable success rates save more than cheap bandwidth.
Partial autonomy, full control: Why we built Web Scraping Copilot
Web Scraping Copilot brings AI-powered, code-first web scraping into VS Code, delivering partial autonomy, deterministic quality, and full control for production web data.
Why your spiders keep getting banned, and how to fix it
Learn why scrapers get blocked and how modern unblocking APIs like Zyte API automate ban handling for faster, more reliable data extraction.