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.

Visual web scraping tools are great. They allow people with little to no technical know-how to extract data from websites with only a couple of hours of upskilling, making them great for simple lead generation, market intelligence, and competitor monitoring projects.

To accurately extract data from a web page, developers usually need to develop custom code for each website.

Today, we’re delighted to announce the launch of the beta program for Zyte's new AI-powered Automatic Extraction API for automated product and article extraction.

If you know anything about Zyte , you know that we are obsessed with data quality and data reliability.

Proxy management is the thorn in the side of most web scrapers. Without a robust and fully featured proxy infrastructure, you will often experience constant reliability issues and hours spent putting out proxy fires - a situation no web scraping professional wants to deal with.

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the use of alternative data sources in investment decision making in hedge funds, investment banks, and private equity firms.

What a year 2018 has been for Zyte !!
It’s hard to know where to start…
This year has seen tremendous growth at Zyte , setting us up to have a great 2019.

2018 has been a great year at Zyte , so there was no better way to cap it off than with a company retreat in Lisbon, Portugal.

When it comes to web scraping, one key element is often overlooked until it becomes a big problem.

Web scraping can look deceptively easy these days. There are numerous open-source libraries/frameworks, visual scraping tools, and data extraction tools that make it very easy to scrape data from a website.

Unbeknownst to many, there is a data revolution happening in finance.
In their never ending search for alpha hedge funds and investment banks are increasingly turning to new alternative sources of data to give them an informational edge over the market.

Throughout the history of the financial markets information has been power.

Over the last couple weeks, GDPR has brought data protection center stage. What was once a fringe concern for most businesses overnight became a burning problem that needed to be solved immediately.

This is a guest post from the folks over at Intoli, one of the awesome companies providing Scrapy commercial support and longtime Scrapy fans.