Zyte's first Developer Community Meetup: the recap, slides, and recording

We just wrapped the first-ever Zyte Developer Community Meetup, a new recurring virtual space where we plan for the community to come together and talk web data, share what we are building, and learn from each other. If you joined us live on June 25, 2026, thank you for showing up, asking sharp questions, and keeping the chat busy. If you missed it, this post has everything in one place: the full recording, the slides to flip through at your own pace, and a quick rundown of what we covered.

Watch the full recording

The complete session, from the agentic web scraping talk to the fireside chat:

Flip through the slides

What we covered

The agenda had three parts: a lightning talk, a tour of what is new at Zyte, and a lap around the community.

Agentic web scraping, with John Rooney

John Rooney, our Developer Engagement Manager, opened with a lightning talk on agentic web scraping: how autonomous agents are changing the way we crawl, extract, and maintain web data at scale. He covered what works today, where it breaks, and how to keep agents on the rails. The Q&A that followed dug into the questions everyone is wrestling with right now, including how to test agent-written spiders, the cost tradeoff against hand-written code, handling anti-bot defenses, and which model to reach for.

Zyte product updates

Next came a quick tour of what has shipped recently across the Zyte API and the wider platform, plus a look at what is coming next.

Five ways to plug into the community

We closed with five quick stops, one per slide, each with a QR code so you could take everything with you:

1. Fresh writing on the Zyte blog,
2. The @zytedata YouTube channel, home to tutorials, the podcast, and prompt-to-production demos.
3. The official r/Zyte subreddit, where the community talks about builds, models, and web scraping in general.

Fireside chat

To round things off, Neha Setia Nagpal sat down with Joaquin "Bonnie" Bonifacino for a rapid-fire fireside chat on building and living with AI, the kind of conversation that is hard to fit into a slide.

See you at meetup #2

That is a wrap on meetup #1. This is a recurring series, so the next one is already on its way. The fastest way to hear about it first, and to keep the conversation going in between, is to join the community. Thanks for being part of the first one.