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AI Scraping now available in Zyte API

Mitch Holt
5 minutes
March 4, 2024
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.

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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;

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The Scraper’s System Part 2: Explorer’s Compass to analyze websites

Neha Setia Nagpal
8 min
February 16, 2024
In the first part, we discussed a template to define the clear purpose of your web scraping system that can help you design your crawlers better and prepare you for the uncertainty involved in a large scale web scraping project.

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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.

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Zyte API is the Successor to Smart Proxy Manager

Daniel Cave
4 mins
February 15, 2024
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.

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Introducing Zyte API Proxy Mode

Adrian Chaves
3 mins
February 6, 2024
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.

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Web Scraping with Python: A Comprehensive Guide

Jeff Graham
22 mins
February 5, 2024
So it's your first python web scraper, or maybe your second. Congratulations, here at Zyte, we're excited for you.

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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.

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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.

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Simplify Your Web Scraping Project with Zyte API

Daniel Cave
5 mins
November 15, 2023
Web scraping developers often find themselves in a struggle to manage bans and blocks. Every time they resolve a ban, it's only a matter of time before their scrapers encounter the same issue again.

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Zyte API Aced the Proxyway Test of Web Unblocking APIs

Iain Lennon
7 mins
November 9, 2023
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.

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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.