“How does Zyte Smart Proxy Manager work?” is the most common question we get asked from customers who after struggling for months (or years) with constant proxy issues, only to have them disappear completely when they switch to Zyte Smart Proxy Manager.
Let’s face it, managing your proxy pool can be an absolute pain and the biggest bottleneck to the reliability of your web scraping!
We’re very excited to announce a new look for Zyte!
Python is our go-to language of choice and Python 2 is losing traction. In order to survive, older programs need to be Python 3 compatible.
It’s the end of an era. Python 2 is on its way out with only a few security and bug fixes forthcoming from now until its official retirement in 2020.
Folks using Portia and Scrapy are engaged in a variety of fascinating web crawling projects, so we wanted to provide you with a way to share your data extraction prowess with the world.
We’ve been rolling out a lot of updates, upgrades, and new features lately, and we’re continuing this trend by announcing the very first Zyte Smart Proxy Manager Dashboard!
Fasten your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen: Scrapy 1.1 with Python 3 support is officially out! After a couple of months of hard work and four release candidates, this is the first official Scrapy release to support Python 3.
We recently announced our integration with MonkeyLearn, bringing machine learning to Scrapy Cloud. MonkeyLearn offers numerous text analysis services via its API. Since there are so many uses to this platform addon, we’re launching a series of tutorials to help get you started.
We’re pleased to announce that Splash 2.0 is officially live after many months of hard work.