Extraction & Parsing
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Apify published a case study on Adside's AdsSpy tool, which scrapes live ads from three ad libraries and processed all 6,055 Y Combinator companies overnight for under $200.
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Apify published a benchmark comparing Crawl4AI with its Website Content Crawler across quality, speed, and cost on a dataset of 1,000 Shopify help pages.
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Apify published a guide on collecting Clutch.co data despite its blocking measures and explains how paid placements skew agency rankings.
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Apify published a blog post covering six approaches to gathering data for AI model training, along with the trade-offs of each.
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Apify published a tutorial on constructing a Python pipeline that uses retrieval-augmented generation to answer questions from PDFs and cite the source page.
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Apify published a guide on using its platform to create a custom API for Dun & Bradstreet company data, targeting users who want to bypass expensive enterprise agreements.
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Apify published a benchmark comparing Tavily and its own RAG Web Browser for retrieval in RAG pipelines.
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Apify publishes a blog post detailing the phenomenon of model collapse in AI models and how incorporating real web data can mitigate it.
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Apify released a tool to scrape Apartments.com listings at scale and integrate them with ChatGPT for interactive market reports.
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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.
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Apify's blog explains how to use its platform to scrape AliExpress category pages on a schedule and log results into Google Sheets without writing code.
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Apify published a tutorial on scraping websites into LlamaIndex, updating indexes without re-embedding unchanged pages, and preventing partial crawls from deleting existing pages.
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Bright Data's blog explores the use of publicly available web video as a source of training data for robotic AI systems.
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Bright Data's blog outlines routines for using Claude Code to streamline web data extraction workflows.
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Browserless has announced a new capability for extracting structured data from web pages.
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Crawlbase announced a service that uses its Crawling API to fetch cited web pages and verify whether quoted passages actually appear on the page.
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Crawlbase compares seven Firecrawl alternatives on rendering, anti-bot success, pricing, and MCP support.
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Crawlbase released a blog post titled 'The Web Scraping Cookbook' that includes success rate, median answer, credit price, browser and country metrics measured on real traffic for 356 sites.
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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.
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Crawlbase published a blog post detailing a method for incremental RAG indexing that uses scheduled recrawling, content hashing, and selective re-embedding via webhooks and pgvector.
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A developer blog post on Hacker News highlights Meta's Muse as an effective tool for web scraping.
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Firecrawl has introduced a new scraping capability called Universal Scrape, as detailed in a blog post on their site.
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Firecrawl published a blog post about handling logged-in pages with the Mastra browser.
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Firecrawl has released a new OCR feature that uses AI agents to extract structured data from images and documents.
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Firecrawl announced two new tools, Anydoc and PDF Inspector, aimed at improving document and PDF data extraction.
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Firecrawl announced the launch of a Research Index tailored for the life sciences domain.
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Firecrawl, a web scraping and data extraction platform, published a blog post discussing the security threat of prompt injection.
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Firecrawl's blog details how sales automation startup 11x uses its web scraping API to automate prospect research.
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Firecrawl released a blog post introducing a Government Legal Index, a resource likely indexing legal documents or government-related legal data.
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Firecrawl has launched an official ChatGPT plugin, enabling users to extract web data directly through conversational AI.
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Google is rolling out new /goto redirect URLs across Search, and SerpApi is actively resolving affected links as the implementation evolves.
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Scrapfly's blog post examines the newly released official Google Trends API, its coverage and limitations, and compares it with existing alternatives like pytrends and managed scrapers.
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A Berlin outbound agency describes how it relies on Apify to discover and verify prospects that traditional B2B databases do not cover.
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Oxylabs released a blog post detailing methods for extracting product information from Amazon.
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Oxylabs released a blog post explaining semantic chunking, a technique for splitting text into meaningful segments to improve data extraction and parsing.
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Apify reports that ParseForge, a team of four, has built 2,000 Actors on its platform, far surpassing its original goal of 1,000 by 2027, with its Actor Factory now producing a new Actor in about an hour.
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Scrapfly published a blog post comparing seven e-commerce product data APIs by access model, covering storefront catalogs, marketplace listings, and seller-only operations feeds.
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Scrapfly published a comparison of eight financial data APIs covering workload, delivery method, history depth, entitlement, and redistribution licensing.
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Scrapfly published a blog post reviewing eight official social media APIs covering posts, video, communities, research, professional data, and federated networks.
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Scrapfly published a comparison of four X scraper repositories that still work in 2026, evaluating them on coverage, account requirements, maintenance, and infrastructure burden.
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Scrapfly published a fixture-based comparison of HtmlAgilityPack and AngleSharp, covering XPath versus CSS selectors, malformed markup handling, and DOM behavior.
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A new blog post from Scrapfly evaluates seven tools for testing, generating, and debugging XPath and CSS selectors in web scraping workflows.
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Scrapfly published a blog post benchmarking six local business data APIs by data model and access methods.
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Scrapfly published a guide evaluating six real estate data APIs across property listings, valuations, parcels, zoning, and neighborhood scores, with advice on when to scrape public portals instead.
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Scrapfly published a blog post detailing techniques for maintaining session state in Scrapy, including cookie jar isolation, JOBDIR resume, and Playwright authentication across restarts.
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Scrapfly's blog post surveys nine e-commerce scraping tools for developers, covering retrieval, extraction, browser automation, and discovery layers.
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Scrapfly released a layer-by-layer guide covering fingerprint and bot detection tools, explaining what detectable results mean and how to fix each leak.
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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.
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Scrapfly released a blog post detailing how to extract DHL parcel tracking status and shipment events using Python, including XHR analysis and API usage.
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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.
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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.
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Scrapfly released a tutorial covering how to extract Marriott hotel prices and availability using Python, including bypassing Akamai bot protection.
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Scrapfly released a blog post tutorial explaining how to scrape Pinterest data including pins, boards, profiles, and images using Python and the platform's hidden resource API.
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Scrapfly released a tutorial on extracting pricing, stock, specifications, and datasheet links from RS-Online's North American listings and product pages.
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Scrapfly released a blog post detailing techniques for scraping Shopify stores, covering endpoints like products.json, JSON-LD structured data, response classification, and fallback strategies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scrapfly released a technical walkthrough covering proxy authentication, rotation, and residential proxies in Python Selenium, including workarounds for Chrome credential dropping.
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Scrapfly released a tutorial covering techniques for extracting book data, ratings, and reviews from Goodreads using JSON-LD, Next.js Apollo state, and CSS selectors.
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Scrapfly released a blog post showing how to scrape Capterra software reviews using Python, its own scraping API, and Cloudflare bypass features.
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Scrapfly released a blog post demonstrating how to scrape Goibibo hotel and flight prices using Python, their own ASP solution, India geo-targeting, and browser sessions.
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Scrapfly released a blog post showing how to scrape Google Jobs listings using Python and its own scraping platform.
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Scrapfly released a blog post teaching how to extract headlines, authors, dates, and bodies from news sites using Newspaper4k, RSS, sitemaps, and techniques for handling JavaScript rendering and anti-bot systems.
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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.
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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.
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Scrapfly published a comparison of six open-source Instagram scrapers for 2026, covering auth models, ban risk, and maintenance status.
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A ScrapingBee blog post advocates for a cascade strategy that uses local extraction methods before resorting to a language model for zero-shot e-commerce scraping.
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A ScrapingBee blog post recaps a talk from OxyCon 2026 that argues many scraping tasks requiring JavaScript can be handled by executing only the necessary scripts and building the DOM, without launching a full browser.
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ScrapingBee published a guide comparing eight Python web scraping tools, covering parsers, browser automation, crawling, proxies, and full-stack scraping services.
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ScrapingBee published a blog post comparing 11 retrieval-augmented generation frameworks, covering their versions and capabilities for document loading, splitting, indexing, and retrieval.
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ScrapingBee published an article defining CAPTCHA solvers, how they automate challenge responses, and when developers should skip them in scraping workflows.
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ScrapingBee published a guide on handling Google's /goto redirect URLs and the opaque CAES tokens they carry in search results.
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ScrapingBee published a blog post examining the failure points in retrieval stages of open-source deep research systems like Local Deep Research, gpt-researcher, and LangChain agents.
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ScrapingBee has released an Agentic Employee Search API that accepts natural-language queries to find relevant employee profiles, eliminating the need for manual filtering or complex search parameters.
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ScrapingBee has introduced a new API endpoint that extracts structured product data from Shopee pages, handling rendering, anti-bot measures, and parsing on behalf of the user.
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ScrapingBee released a blog post outlining four methods for building a Python flight scraper, recommending a managed scraping API to bypass anti-bot measures.
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ScrapingBee released a tutorial explaining how to avoid triggering CAPTCHAs when using Selenium in Ruby by reducing automation signals and using better IPs.
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ScrapingBee's blog post explains how to scrape Swiss real estate portal Immoscout24.ch, noting its internal JSON API, CAPTCHA protections, and terms of service that forbid automated access.
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ScrapingBee's blog post explains how to scrape TCGplayer while noting the site's Terms of Service discourage scraping and that JavaScript rendering complicates simple requests.
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ScrapingBee released a tutorial covering how to extract public menu items and prices from Uber Eats, noting the platform's JavaScript rendering and terms of service restrictions.
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ScrapingBee released a tutorial covering how to extract all text from a website for use in LLM training pipelines.
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ScrapingBee released a blog post walking through the full pipeline for a job aggregator, from sourcing and normalizing to deduplication and freshness management.
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ScrapingBee released a tutorial showing how to use Playwright and Tesseract.js in Node.js to extract text from webpage screenshots via OCR and convert it to structured JSON.
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ScrapingBee released a tutorial demonstrating how to use Playwright, a UI-trained YOLO model, and OCR to scrape data from web pages based on visual rendering rather than HTML markup.
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ScrapingBee released a guide explaining how to scrape Algolia search results by targeting the search endpoint directly instead of parsing HTML.
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ScrapingBee published a blog post walking through the implementation of a self-reviewing code generation loop where an LLM writes extraction code, runs it against real HTML, checks the output, and revises the code on failure.
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Scrapingdog released a tutorial showing how to scrape Apple App Store search results, including app rankings, ratings, and developer data, using Python and its own scraping API.
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SerpApi announced a new Airbnb Search API endpoint that returns listing names, review counts, badges, and prices from a single request.
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SerpApi introduced the Extract API, a service that converts any public web page into structured JSON or Markdown for use in applications, AI agents, or automation workflows.
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SerpApi ran three identical queries through SerpApi, Tavily, Exa, and Firecrawl and compared markdown output location, token cost, and downstream model answer quality.
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SerpApi released a case study detailing how a lead generation company used its Google Maps API to scale lead discovery.
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SerpApi released a tutorial showing how to scrape Zillow real estate listings using its API with multiple programming languages.
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SerpApi published a blog post detailing how converting JSON data to Markdown can reduce token consumption in AI SEO analysis pipelines by up to 90%.
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SerpApi released a blog post detailing how to parse the various absolute and relative date and time formats used in Google Search results.
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SerpApi released a blog post showing how to use the eBay Seller API to extract product catalogs, feedback, and promotions as clean JSON.
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SerpApi released a blog post explaining how to use its API to extract flight prices, routes, airlines, layovers, and price insights from Google Flights as JSON or Markdown.
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SerpApi released a blog post explaining how to use its API to extract Google Play Store search results, home pages, and app listings as structured JSON or Markdown.
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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.
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SerpApi released a blog post demonstrating how to use its API to extract YouTube channel metrics for competitor research and content strategy.
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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.
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SerpApi released a blog post demonstrating how to combine its search API with OpenAI's Decisions API to filter remote job listings based on user preferences.
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SerpApi published a blog post detailing its 97.6% accuracy score on the SimpleQA Verified benchmark using Google search data and its Extract API.
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SerpApi published a blog post demonstrating how to use local language models alongside its API to categorize and analyze competitor app reviews from the Apple App Store.
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SerpApi published a blog post demonstrating how its Markdown output and JSON Restrictor can increase the amount of web search data fed into local LLMs within a fixed context window, tested on four models in LM Studio.
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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.
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Zenrows published a blog post comparing ATTOM, Cotality, CoStar, RentCast, Datafiniti, PropertyData, and Zenrows on data depth, coverage, refresh, delivery, formats, and pricing.
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Zenrows introduces Crawl, a web crawler API that takes a public URL, follows links to a user-specified depth, and returns all discovered URLs along with optional HTML content.
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Zenrows published a blog post announcing its official plugin for Dify, which adds Fetch, Extract, and Batch capabilities to the platform's tool picker.
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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.
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Zenrows released a blog post detailing a Python scraper for Indeed that collects job search results, descriptions, and structured salary data, tested in October 2026.
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Zyte announced a new extraction mode in its API that converts web page main content directly into clean, structured Markdown.
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Zyte published a blog post describing a Scrapy pipeline that uses a fast, calibrated AI model to check each scraped field for realism and halt the crawl when too many fields fail the check.
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Zyte published a guide on using Playwright to render dynamic content within a Scrapy workflow.
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Zyte published a blog post comparing seven approaches to converting web pages into Markdown, covering their strengths and weaknesses for training, RAG, and agent use cases.
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Zyte's blog examines Jev by TypeFace AI, a model that cannot generate strings, and considers its potential role in a scraping pipeline.
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Zyte published a blog post summarizing five takeaways from the Extract Summit 2026 in Austin, focusing on AI's role in web scraping and the enduring importance of data quality, provenance, self-repair, access, and responsibility.
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A new analysis from Zyte reveals that nearly half of the top websites require JavaScript execution to render their content, making them inaccessible to simple HTTP scrapers.
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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.