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Extract localized data with Zyte API’s extended geolocation

Mohsin Ali and Oleksandr Leshchynskyi
5 mins
June 3, 2024
Our Zyte Data client is a global distributor who uses web data to make informed decisions and surface profitable insights around.

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The trade-offs in crawling infrastructure in the modern anti-bot landscape

Daniel Cave
8 mins
April 10, 2024
In this article, I’llexplain the problem of anti-bot technology for web scraping developers through the lens of the anti-bot distribution curve (a view of the top 250,000 websites and the relative complexity of their anti-bot tech) and the landscape of anti-bot tech across the web.

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The Scraper’s System Part 2: Explorer’s Compass to analyze websites

Neha Setia Nagpal
8 min
February 16, 2024
In the first part, we discussed a template to define the clear purpose of your web scraping system that can help you design your crawlers better and prepare you for the uncertainty involved in a large scale web scraping project.

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The challenges e-commerce retailers face managing their web scraping proxies

Ian Kerins
7 min
February 16, 2024
In this article we discuss some main challenges that e-commerce retailers face on a daily basis due to the amount of web data needed and how to solve them.

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Use cURL for web scraping: A Beginner's Guide

Felipe Boff Nunes
16 Mins
September 11, 2023
cURL simplifies data collection from websites via its command-line interface, making it essential for APIs, file transfers, and web scraping.

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Scrapy Cloud secrets: Hub Crawl Frontier and how to use it

Julio Cesar Batista
6 Mins
August 24, 2023
Imagine a long crawling process, like extracting data from a website for a whole month. We can start it and leave it running until we get the results.

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How Web Scraping and Graph Databases Can Power Recommendation Engines

Neha Setia Nagpal
11 Mins
August 15, 2023
I recently had the pleasure of participating in the third episode of Graphversation, a monthly live stream series that brings together graph experts and Neo4j enthusiasts for engaging and enlightening discussions about the captivating world of graphs.

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How to Extract Data From HTML Table

Pawel Miech
5 Mins
August 13, 2023
HTML tables are a very common format for displaying information. When building scrapers you often need to extract data from HTML tables on web pages and turn it into some different structured format, for example, JSON, CSV, or Excel. In this article, we discuss how to extract data from HTML tables using Python and Scrapy.

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Storing and Curating Your Web Crawling Data

Fernando Tadao Ito
9 Mins
August 4, 2023
Web crawlers are becoming increasingly popular in the era of big data, especially now with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and LLaMA. The sheer amount of data that is publicly available from the web has a wide variety of applications including market research, sentiment analysis, and predictive modeling.

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Python lxml tutorial | Guide to Web Scraping with python lxml library

Felipe Boff Nunes
6 Mins
May 18, 2023
Whether you're trying to analyze market trends or gather data for research, web scraping can be a useful skill to have. This technique allows you to extract specific pieces of data from websites automatically and process them for further analysis or use.