PINGDOM_CHECK

Explore resources by topic or category

Blog

Web Scraping vs Data Mining | What's the Difference?

Sarah Lang
5 Mins
February 17, 2024
Data mining and web scraping – sounds like two buzzwords meaning the same thing. Quite often data mining is misunderstood as the process of obtaining information from a website;

Blog

The challenges e-commerce retailers face managing their web scraping proxies

Ian Kerins
7 min
February 16, 2024
In this article we discuss some main challenges that e-commerce retailers face on a daily basis due to the amount of web data needed and how to solve them.

Blog

Court Rules Meta's Terms Do Not Prohibit Scraping of Public Data

Sanaea Daruwalla
7 mins
January 30, 2024
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.

Blog

Celebrating Ethics in Web Scraping With the EWDCI Certification

Sanaea Daruwalla
4 mins
November 21, 2023
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.

Blog

Web Scraping Challenges & Their Cost-Efficient Solutions

Eugenia Evseeva
4 min
November 8, 2023
Web scraping challenges, ranging from IP bans and data accuracy to legal compliance issues, can trip up businesses trying to use web data to fuel machine learning and to make better decisions.

Blog

The Art of Using Data to Make Decisions in Business

Felipe Boff Nunes
15 Mins
August 31, 2023
Flipping a coin, going with your gut, closing your eyes and begging the universe for guidance on how to proceed — these all have their place, sure. But using data to make decisions is a far more reliable approach in business.

Blog

Black Friday 2022 | Web Data Extraction Patterns

Juan Puig Martinez
4 Mins
December 16, 2022
We're just coming off an intense Black Friday season, and being such a significant date for ecommerce web data we have some great news to share!

Blog

Article data extraction | How to Maximize Quality

Konstantin Lopukhin
6 Mins
November 4, 2022
Obtaining access to high-quality and reliable content through news and article scraping is essential to keep up with today’s quickly evolving marketplace.

Blog

Scraper's System: Secrets to architect scalable web scraping

Neha Setia Nagpal
4 Mins
November 4, 2022
Staring at the Statement of Work opened on your laptop screen, your thoughts must be wandering in all directions - where do you start?