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What Is Product Intelligence and Why Your Business Needs It

Eugenia Evseeva
4 min
October 25, 2023
In 2020, Quibi entered the streaming market with high hopes. They wanted to offer a unique service and capture a market share of the booming industry. But the company didn't conduct extensive product intelligence research.

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Use cURL for web scraping: A Beginner's Guide

Felipe Boff Nunes
16 Mins
September 11, 2023
cURL stands for "Client URL", it is an open-source command-line tool that allows users to transfer data to or from a web server using various network protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. By providing a command line interface, it enables users to collect data from websites with ease. It is widely used for tasks such as API interaction and remote file downloading or uploading.

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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.

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Scrapy Cloud secrets: Hub Crawl Frontier and how to use it

Julio Cesar Batista
6 Mins
August 24, 2023
Imagine a long crawling process, like extracting data from a website for a whole month. We can start it and leave it running until we get the results.

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How Web Scraping and Graph Databases Can Power Recommendation Engines

Neha Setia Nagpal
11 Mins
August 15, 2023
I recently had the pleasure of participating in the third episode of Graphversation, a monthly live stream series that brings together graph experts and Neo4j enthusiasts for engaging and enlightening discussions about the captivating world of graphs.

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How to Extract Data From HTML Table

Pawel Miech
5 Mins
August 13, 2023
HTML tables are a very common format for displaying information. When building scrapers you often need to extract data from HTML tables on web pages and turn it into some different structured format, for example, JSON, CSV, or Excel. In this article, we discuss how to extract data from HTML tables using Python and Scrapy.

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Storing and Curating Your Web Crawling Data

Fernando Tadao Ito
9 Mins
August 4, 2023
Web crawlers are becoming increasingly popular in the era of big data, especially now with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and LLaMA. The sheer amount of data that is publicly available from the web has a wide variety of applications including market research, sentiment analysis, and predictive modeling.

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Introducing Zyte API enterprise

Iain Lennon
3 Mins
May 22, 2023
Today we’re excited to announce to the Zyte and Web Scraping communities our new offering: Zyte API Enterprise.

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Python lxml tutorial | Guide to Web Scraping with python lxml library

Felipe Boff Nunes
6 Mins
May 18, 2023
Whether you're trying to analyze market trends or gather data for research, web scraping can be a useful skill to have. This technique allows you to extract specific pieces of data from websites automatically and process them for further analysis or use.

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Social Media & News Data Extraction | Zyte

Marie Moynihan
4 Mins
March 31, 2023
Data extraction from news sites and social media platforms is becoming an increasingly common practice. Popular use cases range from ensuring more informed investment decisions to protecting brand reputation.

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Zyte API | Web Data Extraction | Single API Automation

Marie Moynihan
5 Mins
December 21, 2022
Our vision was to create a single API that takes care of all your web data extraction needs. So we built a web scraping infrastructure that can handle the most demanding use cases for the most sophisticated users.