Field notes from the world of data extraction.

Articles, interviews and analysis on how data is gathered, used and fought over — written by the people closest to it.

When LLM Web  Scraping isn't Enough to Scale Web Scraping
Large Language Models (LLMs)

When LLM Web Scraping isn't Enough to Scale Web Scraping

If LLM web scraping isn't the answer to increasing speed and accuracy in web scraping and overcoming website bans, what is?

Anita Clarke7 min read
Pioneering web scraping technologies and building a developer community, Part 2
Leadership

Pioneering web scraping technologies and building a developer community, Part 2

High quality web data extracted from localized websites can be tricky and expensive. We share how we solved geolocation issues with Zyte API’s extended geolocation.

Voy Zeglin10 min read
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
Advanced Zyte API and Page Object techniques for AI Scraping customization
How To

Advanced Zyte API and Page Object techniques for AI Scraping customization

Cleber Alexandre2 min read
Extract localized data with Zyte API’s extended geolocation
How To

Extract localized data with Zyte API’s extended geolocation

High quality web data extracted from localized websites can be tricky and expensive. We share how we solved geolocation issues with Zyte API’s extended geolocation.

Mohsin Ali, Oleksandr Leshchynskyi6 min read
Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Antiban Evasion Systems

Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Antiban Evasion Systems

Arnold Alexander1 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction

Adding AI to the Web Scraping Tech Stack

AI is effective for helping teams scale up the creation and maintenance of web crawlers and extractors making it easy to add new sources to solve additional business cases.

Anita Clarke3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Scraping practice

Scraped Data Quality

Making sure your web data is trustworthy when web scraping at scale is incredibly important, so one of the defining success factors is a comprehensive quality assurance (QA) process.

Linda Giuliano2 min read
Scraping At Scale Planning

Web Scraping at Scale

Web scraping at scale requires a plan to be successful. You need to define the business case, success metrics, data needed and budget.

Anita Clarke7 min read
Legal Compliance for Web Scraping Project

Legal Compliance for Web Scraping Project

Operating legal and ethical web scraping projects for legal compliance at scale needs legal oversight by lawyers with a specialization in web scraping.

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

The New Guide to Web Scraping at Scale

The challenges of scaling web scraping are underestimated. This whitepaper shares what to consider when scaling your web scraping efforts from planning and design, legal compliance, crawling and extracting, and quality assurance.

Anita Clarke3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Scraping strategy

Key Questions for Scaling Web Scraping

Here are some questions to ask your team and partners that can help you with your web scraping scaling journey.

Anita Clarke3 min read