Apify launches Apartments.com scraper for rental market analysis
Apify released a tool to scrape Apartments.com listings at scale and integrate them with ChatGPT for interactive market reports.
Extraction & Parsing
Apify outlines six methods for downloading Instagram images in 2026
Apify published a guide covering six techniques for downloading Instagram images, ranging from a simple browser trick to a two-Actor pipeline for full profile extraction.
Bright Data Blog discusses robot training data from public web video
Bright Data's blog explores the use of publicly available web video as a source of training data for robotic AI systems.
Crawlbase shows how to build a web scraping pipeline with Zapier using async callbacks
Crawlbase published a guide explaining how to split web retrieval from Zapier's execution window by dispatching async crawls with a callback and catching the finished page in a second Zap.
Firecrawl introduces Agentic OCR for structured data extraction from images
Firecrawl has released a new OCR feature that uses AI agents to extract structured data from images and documents.
Firecrawl introduces Anydoc and PDF Inspector for document extraction
Firecrawl announced two new tools, Anydoc and PDF Inspector, aimed at improving document and PDF data extraction.
Firecrawl launches Research Index for life sciences
Firecrawl announced the launch of a Research Index tailored for the life sciences domain.
Firecrawl publishes case study on 11x's use of its web scraping API for prospect research
Firecrawl's blog details how sales automation startup 11x uses its web scraping API to automate prospect research.
Firecrawl releases official ChatGPT plugin
Firecrawl has launched an official ChatGPT plugin, enabling users to extract web data directly through conversational AI.
Google introduces /goto redirect URLs in Search, SerpApi works on resolution
Google is rolling out new /goto redirect URLs across Search, and SerpApi is actively resolving affected links as the implementation evolves.
Scrapfly publishes 2026 guide to e-commerce scraping tools
Scrapfly's blog post surveys nine e-commerce scraping tools for developers, covering retrieval, extraction, browser automation, and discovery layers.
Scrapfly publishes diagnostic guide for browser fingerprint testing tools
Scrapfly released a layer-by-layer guide covering fingerprint and bot detection tools, explaining what detectable results mean and how to fix each leak.
Scrapfly publishes guide on scraping Airbnb listings and prices
Scrapfly released a blog post detailing how to scrape Airbnb search results, listing details, prices, reviews, and availability using Python and its own scraping platform.
Scrapfly publishes guide on scraping Google Play app reviews and metadata with Python
Scrapfly released a tutorial showing how to extract full Google Play app reviews, ratings, and metadata using Python, bypassing the typical few-hundred-review limit of free libraries.
Scrapfly publishes guide on scraping Lowe's product data and bypassing Akamai
Scrapfly released a blog post detailing how to scrape Lowe's product, price, search, and store location data using embedded page state and their maintained Python scraper.
Scrapfly publishes guide on scraping Marriott hotel data through Akamai defenses
Scrapfly released a tutorial covering how to extract Marriott hotel prices and availability using Python, including bypassing Akamai bot protection.
Scrapfly publishes guide on scraping RS-Online for product data
Scrapfly released a tutorial on extracting pricing, stock, specifications, and datasheet links from RS-Online's North American listings and product pages.
Scrapfly Publishes Guide to Scraping DigiKey Data Past Cloudflare
Scrapfly's blog post details how to scrape DigiKey pricing, stock, and parametric specs while navigating its Cloudflare challenge, and compares this approach to using the official API v4.
Scrapfly publishes guide to scraping Kayak flight data with its SDK
Scrapfly released a blog post walking through the process of scraping Kayak flight search results using its own SDK, covering JavaScript rendering and parsing internal poll JSON.
Scrapfly publishes guide to scraping Target.com via Redsky API and bypassing PerimeterX
Scrapfly released a blog post detailing how to extract product and pricing data from Target.com using the internal Redsky API while handling store-keyed prices and PerimeterX anti-bot defenses.
Scrapfly publishes tutorial on scraping Google Jobs with Python
Scrapfly released a blog post showing how to scrape Google Jobs listings using Python and its own scraping platform.
Scrapfly publishes tutorial on scraping Skyscanner flight prices with Python
Scrapfly released a blog post showing how to extract flight data from Skyscanner by constructing deep-link URLs and capturing itinerary JSON from the rendered page.
Scrapfly ranks 7 lead scraping tools for 2026
Scrapfly published a ranked list of seven lead scraping tools covering no-code extensions and production APIs, with honest assessments of each tool's limitations.
Scrapfly ranks six open-source Instagram scrapers with notes on auth and ban risk
Scrapfly published a comparison of six open-source Instagram scrapers for 2026, covering auth models, ban risk, and maintenance status.
ScrapingBee compares eight top Python web scraping tools for 2026
ScrapingBee published a guide comparing eight Python web scraping tools, covering parsers, browser automation, crawling, proxies, and full-stack scraping services.
ScrapingBee explains CAPTCHA solvers and when to avoid them
ScrapingBee published an article defining CAPTCHA solvers, how they automate challenge responses, and when developers should skip them in scraping workflows.
ScrapingBee publishes guide on scraping website text for LLM training
ScrapingBee released a tutorial covering how to extract all text from a website for use in LLM training pipelines.
SerpApi publishes guide for scraping Zillow listings
SerpApi released a tutorial showing how to scrape Zillow real estate listings using its API with multiple programming languages.
SerpApi publishes guide on scraping Walmart product reviews with its dedicated API
SerpApi released a tutorial showing how to use its Walmart Product Reviews API to extract ratings, review text, feedback counts, and reviewer details in structured JSON and export to CSV.
SerpApi publishes roundup of best web scraping tools for 2026
SerpApi has published a guide covering popular web scraping tools, from open-source frameworks like Scrapy and Crawlee to commercial scraping platforms and search APIs.
Zenrows blog walks through scraping 2026 FIFA World Cup data across three access patterns
Zenrows published a tutorial demonstrating how to scrape 2026 FIFA World Cup data from a JSON endpoint behind JavaScript, an API with per-session JWT, and server-rendered HTML using Python and its own scraping API.
Zenrows publishes practical guide on web data for LLM fine-tuning
Zenrows outlines how to source clean web data for LLM fine-tuning, warning that a single bad extraction can measurably degrade a small seed set.
Zyte blog post explores rendering JavaScript pages with Playwright and Scrapy
Zyte published a guide on using Playwright to render dynamic content within a Scrapy workflow.
Zyte tests Claude Fable 5.1 and GLM-5.3-Flash in a live extraction benchmark
Zyte published a personal benchmark comparing Claude Fable 5.1 and GLM-5.3-Flash on real extraction tasks, revealing that the GLM model matched a model the author had previously encountered.