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We put Zyte’s own Automatic Extraction API head-to-head with a commercial rival - and an open-source alternative - to find out who’s product extraction top dog.

This month, in Van Buren v. United States, the US Supreme Court ruled that accessing permissible areas of a computer system with prior authorization, even for an improper or prohibited purpose, is not a violation of the CFAA.

Article and news data extraction is becoming increasingly popular and widely used by companies.

One common misconception about scraping personal data is that public personal data does not fall under the GDPR.

Visual web scraping tools are great. They allow people with little to no technical know-how to extract data from websites with only a couple of hours of upskilling, making them great for simple lead generation, market intelligence, and competitor monitoring projects.

In this third post in our solution architecture series, we will share with you our step-by-step process for conducting a legal review of every web scraping project we work on.

When it comes to using web data as alternative data for investment decision making, one topic rules them all: compliance.

Proxy management is the thorn in the side of most web scrapers. Without a robust and fully featured proxy infrastructure, you will often experience constant reliability issues and hours spent putting out proxy fires - a situation no web scraping professional wants to deal with.

I was recently invited to speak at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels about web scraping and GDPR.

When it comes to web scraping, one key element is often overlooked until it becomes a big problem.