Web data collection
Articles from the Zyte blog in Web data collection.
Web scraping on an iPhone? Yes, really!
When you can scrape the web by API, a world of possibility opens up. Yes, you can extract live web data using iOS Shortcuts.
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?
OpenClaw and Claude helped me buy the perfect sneakers using Zyte API
Quickly compare e-commerce products across any site with an agent, a skill and an AI-powered web scraping API.
Brand visibility in the digital era: How web data help brands see the full picture
Discover how web data helps brands improve visibility, track competitors, monitor availability, and analyze reviews to win on the digital shelf.
Giving spidey-senses to your web scraping spiders using Spidermon
Learn how Spidermon helps you monitor web scraping data quality in real time. Validate items, track field coverage, and get alerts before bad data impacts your pipeline.
How online retailers use web data to compete on price, promotion, and availability
Discover how retailers leverage web data to optimize pricing, track competitor stock, detect trends, and improve sales performance.
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.
How web data turns e-commerce listings into retail intelligence
Discover how web data enables digital shelf analytics vendors to track prices, availability, and product trends at scale—fueling real-time retail intelligence and competitive advantage.
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?"
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