The latest from Ian Kerins
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The challenges e-commerce retailers face managing their web scraping proxies
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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Visual web scraping tools no longer fit your purpose?
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.
Product Update
From the creators of Scrapy: Automatic data extraction API
To accurately extract data from a web page, developers usually need to develop custom code for each website.
Product Update
Zyte A.I. Automatic Extraction API | e-commerce & articles
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.
Open Source
Spidermon: Zyte's secret to data quality
If you know anything about Zyte , you know that we are obsessed with data quality and data reliability.
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Proxy management: In-house or off-the-shelf?
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.
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The rise of web data in hedge fund decision making
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.
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Looking Back at 2018: A Year of Growth and Challenges
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.
It’s hard to know where to start…
This year has seen tremendous growth at Zyte , setting us up to have a great 2019.
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Shubber Gettogether 2018: Gathering Innovators and Thinkers
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.
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Data Quality Assurance For Enterprise Web Scraping
When it comes to web scraping, one key element is often overlooked until it becomes a big problem.
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Price intelligence: Scraping 100 billion products pages
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.
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A Sneak Peek Inside What Hedge Funds Think of Alternative Financial Data
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.
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.
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Want To Predict Fitbit’s Quarterly Revenue? Eagle Alpha Did It Using Web Scraped Product Data
Throughout the history of the financial markets information has been power.
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