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Web scraping has emerged as a transformative technology, providing a strategic edge by enabling efficient and scalable data extraction.

We’re thrilled to announce to our global developer community that Zyte API now comes out of the box with all the features that power our complete solution for scraping with AI, enabling developers to build and launch spiders, unblock websites and extract data from a single UI three times faster than legacy scraping vendors and proxy APIs.

After a decade of dedicated service, Smart Proxy Manager (SPM) is being retired for new customers. We’re excited to introduce our flagship Web Scraping API, Zyte API, as its worthy successor — the best and only way to access ethical and industry-leading managed proxy solutions.

Zyte API is the next iteration of Zyte’s best-in class proxy and website unblocking technology. We built it as an HTTP API. This was a conscious design decision: an API to support all your web scraping needs would not work well with the limitations of a proxy API.

In 2023, Meta sued Bright Data for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram, alleging that its scraping breached Facebook and Instagram’s terms of service and is thus a breach of contract.

The reputation of web scraping hasn’t always been the best. Unsavory actors have cast a shadow over the reputable parts of the web scraping industry at large, and it has to stop.

Proxyway, one of the most respected proxy provider research blogs, released its in-depth review of five leading proxy APIs on the market. The report, In-Depth Look into Popular Proxy APIs (Web Unblockers), showed that Zyte API is by far the best option when looking at the three major fundamentals: success rate, speed, and cost.