In just the US alone, there were 27 million individuals running or starting a new business in 2015.

Let's start with what is XPath? XPath is a powerful language that is often used for scraping the web. It allows you to select nodes or compute values from an XML or HTML document and is actually one of the languages that you can use to extract web data using Scrapy.

During the 2016 Collision Conference held in New Orleans, our Content Strategist Cecilia Haynes interviewed conference speaker Dr. Tyrone Grandison.

During the 2016 Collision Conference held in New Orleans, Zyte Content Strategist Cecilia Haynes had the opportunity to interview the brains and the brawn behind Up Hail, the rideshare comparison app.

You can deploy, run, and maintain control over your Scrapy spiders in Scrapy Cloud, our production environment.

What does “the Future of Work” mean to you? To us, it describes how we approach life at Scrapinghub.

What if you could have complete control over your environment? Your crawling environment, that is...

Python is our go-to language of choice and Python 2 is losing traction. In order to survive, older programs need to be Python 3 compatible.

The first rule of web crawling is you do not harm the website. The second rule of web crawling is you do NOT harm the website. We’re supporters of the democratization of web data, but not at the expense of the website’s owners.

It’s the end of an era. Python 2 is on its way out with only a few security and bug fixes forthcoming from now until its official retirement in 2020.

Web data is a bit like the Matrix. It’s all around us, but not everyone knows how to use it meaningfully.

Welcome to This Month in Open Source at Zyte! In this regular column, we share all the latest updates on our open source projects including Scrapy, Splash, Portia, and Frontera.