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Judge dismisses X’s lawsuit against Bright Data (for now)

Sanaea Daruwalla
6 mins
July 3, 2024
Bright Data has been having great success in getting the lawsuits brought against it by social media giants dismissed.

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Now developers can intercept network patterns within Zyte API

Cleber Alexandre
6 mins
June 28, 2024
Intercepting the website’s network exchange patterns can be particularly useful for optimizing your scraping scripts.

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From Data to Decisions: Transforming Digital Shelf Analytics with Zyte API

Debbie Reeve Crook
4 mins
April 30, 2024
Web scraping has emerged as a transformative technology, providing a strategic edge by enabling efficient and scalable data extraction.

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Scrape from anywhere with Geolocation settings

Cleber Alexandre
6 mins
April 24, 2024
Many use cases in web scraping require interacting with localized websites outside your physical location.

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The Most Complete Headless Browser for Web Scraping

Cleber Alexandre
6 mins
April 24, 2024
Are you sick of the endless development, hosting, monitoring, and maintenance cycle required to manage your headless browser infrastructure?

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AI Scraping now available in Zyte API

Mitch Holt
5 minutes
March 4, 2024
We’re thrilled to announce to our global developer community that Zyte API now comes out of the box with all the features that power our complete solution for scraping with AI, enabling developers to build and launch spiders, unblock websites and extract data from a single UI three times faster than legacy scraping vendors and proxy APIs.

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Zyte API is the Successor to Smart Proxy Manager

Daniel Cave
4 mins
February 15, 2024
After a decade of dedicated service, Smart Proxy Manager (SPM) is being retired for new customers. We’re excited to introduce our flagship Web Scraping API, Zyte API, as its worthy successor — the best and only way to access ethical and industry-leading managed proxy solutions.

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Introducing Zyte API Proxy Mode

Adrian Chaves
3 mins
February 6, 2024
Zyte API is the next iteration of Zyte’s best-in class proxy and website unblocking technology. We built it as an HTTP API. This was a conscious design decision: an API to support all your web scraping needs would not work well with the limitations of a proxy API.

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Court Rules Meta's Terms Do Not Prohibit Scraping of Public Data

Sanaea Daruwalla
7 mins
January 30, 2024
In 2023, Meta sued Bright Data for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram, alleging that its scraping breached Facebook and Instagram’s terms of service and is thus a breach of contract.

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Celebrating Ethics in Web Scraping With the EWDCI Certification

Sanaea Daruwalla
4 mins
November 21, 2023
The reputation of web scraping hasn’t always been the best. Unsavory actors have cast a shadow over the reputable parts of the web scraping industry at large, and it has to stop.