One of Adlede’s main challenges is news data extraction. They need a constant influx of news data. Which is then used to fuel their internal matching tool. Without web extracted structured news data they wouldn’t be able to provide services for their clients. Before starting to use Automatic Extraction, Adlede tried to scrape the web in-house. They developed their own custom scrapers for many different websites to get the data. But over time they realized that there’s a big problem with this approach.
It took too much time and resources to maintain the scrapers. They were wasting time fixing spiders and keeping the data flow going. They found that it made more sense for them to pay for a web scraping product that can give them the data without wasting time managing the extraction code. In order to get news data from the web at scale, they needed to find a reliable and easy-to-use solution that can automatically extract data without writing any custom, website-specific code. That’s when they found Zyte Automatic Extraction.
Adlede researched the market to find the best solution that can provide the data they needed. Adlede decided to try Zyte News Automatic Extraction and found that its data quality and reliability makes it hard to beat.
They looked at multiple news and article data providers as well, but others didn’t provide a standardized output and were hard to get started with. So Adlede chose Zyte to extract data from hundreds of different domains and hundreds of thousands of pages.
After extraction, Adlede is analyzing the content of these articles. That’s why the text body field is the most important for them - which contains the whole article content in text format. Luckily, Zyte's product delivers this field - among others - in really high quality.
When working with a new client, Adlede extracts data from 40-50 or even more different websites. It would be a lot of work to develop custom scrapers for them. With Zyte it’s much faster and easier to get the data.
“Zyte works fast and extracts high-quality data. It’s a reliable tool.” - Chris Greno, CEO @ Adlede
