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Introducing The Zyte Smart Proxy Manager Dashboard

Cecilia Haynes
2 Mins
June 1, 2016
We’ve been rolling out a lot of updates, upgrades, and new features lately, and we’re continuing this trend by announcing the very first Zyte Smart Proxy Manager Dashboard!

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Data Extraction With Scrapy And Python 3

Valdir Stumm Junior
3 Mins
May 25, 2016
Fasten your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen: Scrapy 1.1 with Python 3 support is officially out! After a couple of months of hard work and four release candidates, this is the first official Scrapy release to support Python 3.

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Scrapy + MonkeyLearn: Textual Analysis Of Web Data

Valdir Stumm Junior
6 Mins
May 11, 2016
We recently announced our integration with MonkeyLearn, bringing machine learning to Scrapy Cloud. MonkeyLearn offers numerous text analysis services via its API. Since there are so many uses to this platform addon, we’re launching a series of tutorials to help get you started.

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Introducing Scrapy Cloud 2.0

Valdir Stumm Junior
6 Mins
May 4, 2016

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Splash 2.0: Powering Web Rendering with QT 5 and Python 3

Valdir Stumm Junior
3 Mins
February 29, 2016
We’re pleased to announce that Splash 2.0 is officially live after many months of hard work.

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Migrate Your Kimono Projects to Portia: Smooth Transition Guide

Valdir Stumm Junior
< 1 Mins
February 26, 2016
Heads up, Kimono Labs users!
Today, we are releasing a tool to help you migrate your Kimono projects to Portia.

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Python 3 Support with Scrapy 1: Embracing the Future

Cecilia Haynes
2 Mins
February 4, 2016
Scrapy with beta Python 3 support is finally here! Released through Scrapy 1.1.0rc1, this is the result of several months of hard work on the part of the Scrapy community and Zyte engineers.

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Introducing JavaScript Support for Portia: Expanding Web Scraping Capabilities

Valdir Stumm Junior
2 Mins
August 19, 2015
Today we released the latest version of Portia bringing with it the ability to crawl pages that require JavaScript. To celebrate this release we are making Splash available as a free trial to all Portia users so you can try it out with your projects.

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Distributed Frontera: Web Crawling At Scale

Sibiryakov Alexander
5 Mins
August 6, 2015
This past year, we have been working on a distributed version of our crawl frontier framework, Frontera. This work was partially funded by DARPA and is included in the DARPA Open Catalog.

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EuroPython 2015: Uniting Pythonistas in Europe

Pablo Hoffman
3 Mins
July 21, 2015
EuroPython 2015 is happening this week and we’re having the largest company meetup so far as a part of it, with more than 30 members from our fully remote-working team attending.

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New Changes to Our Scrapy Cloud Platform: Enhanced Performance and Features

Pablo Hoffman
3 Mins
January 23, 2015
We are proud to announce some exciting changes we've introduced this week. These changes bring a much more pleasant user experience, and several new features including the addition of Portia to our platform!

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Introducing ScrapyRT: An API for Scrapy Spiders

Pablo Hoffman
< 1 Mins
January 22, 2015
We’re proud to announce our new open source project, ScrapyRT! ScrapyRT, short for Scrapy Real Time, allows you to extract data from a single web page via an API using your existing Scrapy spiders.