Author

Attila Toth

Attila's 33 articles focus on the practical mechanics of scraping at scale: proxy types and success rates, ban avoidance, and Zyte's beta APIs for specific verticals (product reviews, automotive data, job postings, real estate, and news). He also authored the "Zyte Developers Community Newsletter" series, seven Smart Proxy Manager webinars, and several applied data-analysis walkthroughs combining Scrapy with Matplotlib, MySQL, and Pandas — useful reading for anyone building a production scraping pipeline around a specific data vertical.

Scraping Product Prices Made Easy: Discover the Best Free Tool
Use case

Scraping Product Prices Made Easy: Discover the Best Free Tool

Price scraping tools deliver the best prices on the web. Get the best deals with price-parser, our open source library to accurately scrape prices online.

Attila Toth3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Fuelling price intelligence with web data extraction

Attila Toth1 min read
Backconnect proxies explained: How to use them in a scraping project?
Proxies

Data Center Proxies vs. Residential Proxies

Learn all about the difference between residential proxies and data center proxies and discover which are better for your web data extraction needs.

Attila Toth3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Zyte Smart Proxy Manager and Scrapy tips

Attila Toth1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Zyte Smart Proxy Manager tactics demystified

Attila Toth1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Web data extraction: The build in-house vs outsource decision

Attila Toth1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

How to scrape the web without getting blocked

Attila Toth1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Proxy management done right

Attila Toth1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

How to scale your web scraping with proxies

Attila Toth1 min read
4 simple Steps for effective Automated Data QA Process
Open-source

How Scrapy makes web crawling easy and accurate

Get the best value for your web crawling project by using Scrapy. An awesome framework you should learn and incorporate for easy and accurate web crawling.

Attila Toth5 min read
Autoscraping Casts A Wider Net
Developer interest

Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 4: Uniting the Community

Don't miss out on the fourth edition of our Zyte Developers Community Newsletter, featuring exciting news and events within our vibrant community.

Attila Toth1 min read
Aduana: Link Analysis to Crawl the Web at Scale
Developer interest

Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 3: Celebrating Milestones

Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 3 - Explore the third edition of our newsletter, keeping you informed about the vibrant Zyte developers' community.

Attila Toth1 min read
Aduana: Link Analysis to Crawl the Web at Scale
Developer interest

Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 2: Insights and Updates

Dive into the second edition of our Zyte Developers Community Newsletter, featuring the latest developments and resources for developers.

Attila Toth2 min read
Autoscraping Casts A Wider Net
Developer interest

Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 1: Stay Connected

Stay updated with our inaugural Zyte Developers Community Newsletter Issue 1. Packed with valuable insights and updates for developers in the Zyte community.

Attila Toth2 min read
4 simple Steps for effective Automated Data QA Process
Developer interest

Launching The Zyte Developers Community

Zyte Developers Community was created so developers have a place to learn, discuss web scraping challenges and find answers to their questions.

Attila Toth1 min read
Backconnect proxies explained: How to use them in a scraping project?
How To

Advance Guide for Large Scale Web Scraping

From inconsistent website layouts to badly written HTML. Being able to scale web scraping comes with its share of difficulties. Follow this guide for help.

Attila Toth3 min read
Custom Crawling & News API: Design A Web Scraping Solution
How To

News & article data extraction: Open source vs closed source

We help you find an article data extraction tool that is best suited to meet your needs and provides the functionality and data quality that you expect.

Attila Toth7 min read
Witness the power of web scraped product data for investors
Use case

Real Estate Data Extraction for smarter decisions

What are the elements of web scraping and real estate data extraction? This blog post will help you leverage the power of web scraping.

Attila Toth5 min read
Backconnect proxies explained: How to use them in a scraping project?
Traffic

How To Get High Success Rates With Proxies

As time is usually a limiting constraint, scraping at scale requires your crawlers to scrape the web at very high speeds without compromising data quality.

Attila Toth3 min read
4 Sectors That Benefited Most From Business Intelligence Software
How To

Web Scraping | A Guide To Reliably Extract Data

The web is complex and constantly changing which makes web data extraction difficult. In this article, we share some tools that make web scraping easier.

Attila Toth7 min read
Gain a competitive edge with product data
How To

Product Reviews API (beta): Extract Product Reviews At Scale

Using the Zyte Automatic Data Extraction API, you can get access to product reviews in a structured format, without writing site-specific code. Check it out!

Attila Toth3 min read
Zyte A.I. Automatic Extraction API | e-commerce & articles
How To

Vehicle API (beta): Extract Automotive Data At Scale

Zyte Automatic Data Extraction API can extract all the publicly visible vehicle details and technical information and get your data without writing code.

Attila Toth3 min read
Job Postings API Stable Release: Simplified Access to Data
Use case

Job Postings at Scale Beta API: Simplifying Recruitment

Job Postings at Scale Beta API - Unlock the potential of job postings data with our Job Postings at Scale Beta API, empowering your job market analysis.

Attila Toth2 min read
Proxy management: In-house or off-the-shelf proxy solutions?
Handling Bans

Ways for Web Scraping Without Getting Blocked

Learn what the subtle ways a website can recognize you as a bot and not a human. Understand the best practices to access web data while you scrape the web.

Attila Toth6 min read
EuroPython 2015: Uniting Pythonistas in Europe
Developer interest

End year review: The most important things in 2019 for us

2019 has been a monumental year for us. With the wealth of experience and knowledge that we collected in 2019, we hope to make 2020 even better for you!

Attila Toth4 min read
Backconnect proxies explained: How to use them in a scraping project?
Proxies

Backconnect proxies explained: How to use them in a scraping project?

Scaling up your web scraping project without a reliable backconnect rotating proxy service is difficult. Learn how a backconnect proxy works and when to use it.

Attila Toth4 min read
Backconnect proxies explained: How to use them in a scraping project?
Open-source

How to use Zyte Smart Proxy Manager with Scrapy

Zyte Smart Proxy Manager is specifically designed for web scraping. In this article, learn how to use Zyte Smart Proxy Manager, inside your Scrapy spider.

Attila Toth2 min read
Building Spiders Made Easy | GUI For Scrapy Shell
Use case

Scrapy, Matplotlib, MySQL: Real Estate Data Analysis

Extract real estate data from one of the biggest real estate sites and then analyze the data using Python, Matplotlib and MySQL.

Attila Toth7 min read
Web Scraping Price Monitoring
Use case

Price Intelligence With Python: Scrapy, SQL, And Pandas

Smart Price intelligence for retailers is becoming increasingly important. In this article we will extract products data then try to get insights out of it.

Attila Toth7 min read
From the creators of Scrapy: Automatic data extraction API
Use case

Get News data extraction at scale | Zyte Automatic Extract

In this article, we take you through how to extract data from two popular news sites and perform basic exploratory analysis. Best thing: You can try it for free!

Attila Toth6 min read
Proxy management: In-house or off-the-shelf proxy solutions?
Proxies

Python Requests Proxy Module | How to use proxies

Learn how to configure and use proxies with the Python Requests Proxy module. With the right proxy settings you avoid bans and overcome web scraping obstacles.

Attila Toth4 min read
How to use XPath to extract web data
Proxies

How To Set Up A Custom Proxy In Scrapy

Learn to set up a custom proxy inside your Scrapy spider in an easy way. Setup a custom proxy or just use Zyte Smart Proxy Manager to take care of everything.

Attila Toth5 min read
Web Scraping Price Monitoring
Use case

Web Data Analysis: Exposing NFL Player Salaries With Python

What are the salaries of the NFL's biggest players? Find out how with Python web scraping and web data analytics.

Attila Toth10 min read