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.
Web scraping as social practice: Ethics and efficiency in a data-hungry world
Web scraping is more than a technical act, it’s a social practice. Explore ethical scraping principles, responsible data collection, and how to balance efficiency with respect for data and people.
Extract clean content automatically with Zyte API’s new pageContent data type
Discover how Zyte API’s new PageContent data type makes content extraction effortless — delivering clean, structured data from any web page automatically.
Balancing innovation and regulation in data scraping
Weighing your options from full control to full service.
The new economics of web data: Smaller scraping just got cheaper
Discover how AI and new scraping tech are lowering costs, removing the “scale tax,” and making web data access affordable for smaller teams.
Why your agent deserves a wallet
Acting autonomously on tasks like data gathering, financially-empowered agents could change the economics of the web.
Memo to CTOs: Don’t build the product
Zyte’s CTO says great tech leaders don’t work on software, they work systems that make software.
How to Plan Your Web Scraping Project Like a Product Manager
Most web scraping projects that collapse don't fail because of technical incompetence. They fail because teams treat data extraction like a coding sprint rather than a product launch.
Agentic web scraping: Hype, reality and what happens next
From broken parsers to context limits, today’s AI agents have real challenges—but with the right tools and orchestration, they could reshape how we extract web data.
AI Web Scraping as the Future of Scalable Data Collection
AI-powered web scraping is transforming data collection by making it faster, smarter, and highly scalable.
How Zyte’s extraction experts guarantee data quality
Ensuring web data quality at scale means moving beyond fragile scripts and spot checks to robust validation that keeps business decisions accurate and reliable.
Death of the Proxy? There’s An API for That
The proxy era is ending as web scraping shifts from managing IP pools to smarter, API-driven solutions.
Why the Best Engineers Are Actually Lazy
There’s a popular archetype in web scraping circles: the heroic engineer who fights CAPTCHAs at 3 a.m., hand-tunes a proxy farm before breakfast, then rewrites four spiders after lunch because the target sites pushed new JavaScript.
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