Author
Shane Evans
Founder, CEO at Zyte
Shane's articles trace Zyte's history and open-source projects, including the Scrapinghub-to-Zyte rebrand, Portia's visual scraping tool, and Dash. He also wrote on data-storage architecture decisions (why MongoDB was a poor fit for scraped data), remote-work transition lessons from the company's early years, and two open-source/API fireside-chat webinars.
The future I dreamed of is dawning
Zyte's CEO Shane Evans shares a 15-year vision for effortless, AI-driven web data extraction and introduces the 2026 Web Scraping Industry Report with 26 actionable insights.
Sustainability in Open Source | Fireside Chat
Learn how successful open-source projects balance community value with sustainable growth. Industry leaders share insights on monetization, maintenance, and building thriving communities.
Fireside chat with Shane Evans on web scraping APIs
Watch Shane Evans, CEO and co-founder of Zyte, in an exclusive Fireside Chat as he delves into the evolution of web scraping APIs, the groundbreaking technology revolutionizing how businesses extract and utilize web data.
Reflecting on the 2022 Web Data Extraction Summit: A Memorable Experience
Reflecting on the 2022 Web Data Extraction Summit (Zyte) - Join us in reflecting on the impactful insights and experiences shared at the 2022 Web Data Extraction Summit by Zyte.
5 Reasons to Attend Extract Summit 2022: A Must-Attend Event
5 Reasons to Attend Extract Summit 2022 - Uncover the five compelling reasons why you should be a part of the Extract Summit 2022, the ultimate web data extraction event.
Measuring Web product data quality for accurate decisions
Get the best product data extraction quality for your projects with Zyte’s Automatic Extraction. Leading in scores for price and SKU attributes.
Scrapinghub is Now Zyte: Embracing a New Identity
Zyte Is Now Zyte! - Discover our brand transformation from Zyte to Zyte, reflecting our continued dedication to data extraction excellence.
Transitioning to Remote Working as a Company: Lessons Learned
Transitioning to Remote Working as a Company - Gain valuable insights into smoothly transitioning your company to a remote work setup.
Zyte Crawls The Deep Web
Explore Memex - The Future of Web Archiving: Learn about Memex, an innovative web archiving system that opens new horizons for preserving digital content.
Portia: The Open-Source Visual Web Scraper
As you can see, Portia allows you to visually configure what’s crawled and extracted in a very natural way. It provides immediate feedback, making the process
Open Source | Zyte | Looking Back At 2013
Looking Back at 2013 - Join us as we reflect on the highlights and achievements of Zyte in 2013. See how far we've come in the web scraping industry.
Introducing Dash
Introducing Dash - Discover Dash, a new tool designed to simplify web scraping. Learn how to leverage its capabilities for better data extraction.
Why MongoDB Is A Bad Choice For Storing Scraped Data
MongoDB was used early on at Zyte to store scraped data because it's convenient. Scraped data is represented as (possibly nested) records which can be
Finding Similar Items
This post describes an approach to the problem of finding similar items among crawled items and how this was implemented at Zyte.
Autoscraping Casts A Wider Net
AutoScraping: Casts a Wider Net - Learn how to maximize your web scraping efforts with AutoScraping. Find out how it can broaden your data collection horizon.