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Guides, tutorials and courses on web scraping and data extraction — from your first request to production pipelines.
What is a residential proxy?
Learn what residential proxies are, how they compare to datacenter proxies, and why modern web scraping needs more than IP diversity.
How much do rotating proxies cost?
Learn how much rotating proxies cost, what affects pricing, and why total web scraping costs often go beyond proxy subscriptions.
How do rotating proxies work?
Learn how rotating proxies work, when to use them for web scraping, and why IP rotation alone is not enough for reliable data access.
Are proxies legal for web scraping?
Learn whether proxies are legal for web scraping, what compliance factors matter, and why modern teams use automated unblocking beyond proxy management.
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.
Should AI Companies Build Their Own Web Scraping Pipelines?
Should AI companies build their own web scraping pipelines? Learn when in-house scraping makes sense and when it becomes costly and hard to maintain at scale.
What Is AI Data Provenance? Definition & Importance
Learn what AI data provenance is and why it matters. Understand data origin, collection methods, governance, and how provenance supports trust and compliance.
How to ensure data quality in your Scrapy web scraping projects using Spidermon and Claude Code
Spidermon is an open-source monitoring framework for Scrapy. You attach it to your spider, define what "success" looks like, and it automatically checks your crawl results after the spider closes, flagging anything that doesn't meet your standards.
Why your API responses look like gibberish: the gzip decompression trap
The script was working. Requests were going out, responses were coming back with HTTP 200. But the response body was unreadable noise, a wall of binary characters that crashed the JSON parser and reported "no data found". No error code, no timeout, no network failure; just garbage where structured data should be.
How to parse HTML tables into structured data (CSV/Excel)
In this guide, you'll learn three things: how HTML tables are actually structured (so the parsing makes sense), how to extract clean tabular data using Python, and how to export it to CSV or Excel
How to Test Web Scrapers During Development
Learn how to test web scrapers during development. Validate selectors, use HTML fixtures, and ensure reliable data extraction across changing websites.
How Developers Debug Web Scraping Selectors
Learn how developers debug web scraping selectors. Discover common issues, testing techniques, and how to build reliable extraction logic for changing websites.