Insight and analysis
Articles from the Zyte blog in Insight and analysis.
Why 10 million tokens won’t save your AI agent (and what will)
New models can process larger inputs, and confuse themselves in the process. Context management techniques can solve the problem.
Web scraping APIs vs proxies: A head-to-head comparison
Proxies are essential to scraping at scale. So, how do full-stack web scraping APIs compare?
Legal clarity comes with compliance demands
Explore how new regulations like the EU AI Act and California AB 2013 are reshaping AI data compliance in 2026. Learn why provenance, transparency, and lawful sourcing are now critical.
Web traffic is splintering into access lanes
Explore how AI agents are reshaping web traffic into hostile, negotiated, and invited access lanes. Learn what this means for bots, scraping, and the future of data access.
The recipe for a request: Scaling data extraction through investigation
Learn how an investigative mindset helps scale data extraction from single requests to millions daily by building resilient, efficient scraping systems.
Automation drives power in the data arms race
Anti-bot systems now evolve in minutes, not weeks. Discover why automated, self-healing scraping systems are essential to survive the 2026 data arms race and how to adapt.
Are programming practices relevant anymore?
Programmers were raised on long-standing core principles of the craft. What if those tenets are no longer relevant?
AI is the new engine for web scraping
From LLM-powered extraction to agentic pipelines, here's how AI is reshaping every stage of the web scraping workflow in 2026 and what it means for your stack.
Super-powers, toll booths and the new era of data collection
Explore how AI is transforming web scraping, the rise of advanced anti-bot systems, and what the future holds for data collection in an increasingly controlled internet.
Data outcomes are top of the scraping stack
By 2026, the question won't be "which proxy should I use?" It will be "which API should I call?"
More data, more trouble: How a perfect corpus corrupted my AI dream
What a failed experiment taught me about curated data, prompting, and when scraping actually matters.
Beyond text: Unlocking value on the multimedia web
The web is about more than the written word. Why companies are racing to harness the power of video, audio and pictures.
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