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EuroPython 2015: Uniting Pythonistas in Europe

Pablo Hoffman
3 Mins
July 21, 2015
EuroPython 2015 is happening this week and we’re having the largest company meetup so far as a part of it, with more than 30 members from our fully remote-working team attending.

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New Changes to Our Scrapy Cloud Platform: Enhanced Performance and Features

Pablo Hoffman
3 Mins
January 23, 2015
We are proud to announce some exciting changes we've introduced this week. These changes bring a much more pleasant user experience, and several new features including the addition of Portia to our platform!

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Introducing ScrapyRT: An API for Scrapy Spiders

Pablo Hoffman
< 1 Mins
January 22, 2015
We’re proud to announce our new open source project, ScrapyRT! ScrapyRT, short for Scrapy Real Time, allows you to extract data from a single web page via an API using your existing Scrapy spiders.

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Introducing Data Reviews: Unlocking Insights with Zyte

Valdir Stumm Junior
< 1 Mins
June 27, 2014
One of the things that takes more time when building a spider is reviewing the scraped data and making sure it conforms to the requirements and expectations of your client or team.

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Introducing Dash

Shane Evans
4 Mins
July 27, 2013
We're excited to introduce Dash, a major update to our scraping platform.
This release is the final step in migrating to our new storage back end and contains improvements to almost every part of our infrastructure. In this post I'd like to introduce some of the highlights.

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Introducing Smart Proxy Manager

Pablo Hoffman
< 1 Mins
May 11, 2013
We are proud to introduce Zyte Smart Proxy Manager , a smart web downloader designed specifically for web crawling.

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Scrapy 0.15: Dropping Support for Python 2.5

Pablo Hoffman
< 1 Mins
February 27, 2012
After a year considering it, we have decided to go ahead and drop support for Python 2.5 in Scrapy. Starting from 0.15, Scrapy will require Python 2.6 or above.