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When LLM Web Scraping isn't Enough to Scale Web Scraping

Anita Clarke
6 mins
June 12, 2024
If you’re not using AI, you’re being left behind. Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, this is the message developers are constantly hearing.

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Pioneering web scraping technologies and building a developer community, Part 2

Voy Zeglin
10 mins
June 10, 2024
In the second part of our in-depth interview with Voy Zeglin, we delve into the nitty-gritty of web scraping. Voy shares his expertise on how his company, Data Miners, deals with anti-scraping measures and maintains high data quality.

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The trade-offs in crawling infrastructure in the modern anti-bot landscape

Daniel Cave
8 mins
April 10, 2024
In this article, I’llexplain the problem of anti-bot technology for web scraping developers through the lens of the anti-bot distribution curve (a view of the top 250,000 websites and the relative complexity of their anti-bot tech) and the landscape of anti-bot tech across the web.

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Compliant Web Scraping with AI

Callum Henry
6 mins
March 15, 2024
Zyte’s flagship product, Zyte API, now includes built-in features that automate crawling using spider templates, and our patented AI-powered automated extraction, which gives you quality structured data quickly without writing custom parsing code.

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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 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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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.