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The future of Scrapy: Smarter, faster and ready for AI-powered scraping

Robert Andrews
6 min
June 23, 2025
What does the future hold for the tool some describe as “the gift that revolutionised web scraping”?

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Rise of the Data Vendor: How Outsourcing is Transforming Supply and Fuelling Businesses

Robert Andrews
6 min
June 20, 2025
With the emergence of managed data extraction vendors, businesses no longer need to gather web data themselves.

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Quality, focus and scale: Three ways data outsourcing benefits businesses

Theresia Tanzil
8 min
June 11, 2025
The Strategic Case for Buying Web Data: Quality, Focus, and Scale

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Ten years since Scrapy 1.0: The stats and stories behind your favorite framework

Cleber Alexandre
5 mins
June 5, 2025
See what 10 years of Scrapy 1.0 has produced — in milestones and metrics - as it became the most-used open source web scraping framework in the world.

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A Deep Dive into Zyte's Open-Source Libraries

Neha Setia Nagpal
1 mins
December 19, 2024
Discover how Zyte’s open-source libraries like ClearHTML, Extruct, Chomp.js, and more simplify web data extraction and processing.

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Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright: Which tool is right for web scraping at scale?

Neha Setia Nagpal
1 mins
October 7, 2024
Discover the strengths and limitations of Selenium, Puppeteer, and Playwright for web scraping at scale.

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4 essential Scrapy plugins for building efficient and effective spiders

Neha Setia Nagpal
1 mins
August 15, 2024
Here are four essential Scrapy plugins we use to build efficient web crawlers for our customers.

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Choosing Between Puppeteer vs. Selenium for Web Scraping

Karlo Jedud
8 mins
July 10, 2024
Web scraping tools save hours of work by automating data extraction, testing web applications, and performing repetitive tasks.

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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.