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Zyte #1 Web Scraping Service
Company blog · zyte.com/blog · on HN as lopuhinprogrammingdata
Zyte #1 Web Scraping Service is the company blog at zyte.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Zyte – The web data you need”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zyte's blog for web scraping topics, including a legal analysis of the Van Buren case. Commenters cite it as a source or mention it in passing, and none judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Home of the all-in-one, AI-powered web scraping platform, and a world-class data delivery team. Your devs or ours?
Most-linked posts?
- Zyte – The web data you need3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-10
What Hacker News says?
Zyte | Senior Data Scientist | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.zyte.com/ At Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), our goal is to help you get the data from the web, so we develop services such as smart rotating proxies, browser rendering API, data extraction API, a cloud for running your crawling jobs, etc. At the data science team, the main project we work on is data extraction API, which can extract articles, products, jo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)”Submitted Web snapshots? The what, the why, and the how as a story · 4 points
HN discussionZyte (formerly Scrapinghub) | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.zyte.com/jobs/ We are a globally distributed team of over 190 Zytans working from over 28 countries. We are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We are the Creators and lead maintainer of Scrapy, an open source web extraction framework used by over 1M developers. Open roles:…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Zyte – The web data you need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI’m biased since I’m an owner of a web scraping agency ( https://webscrapingsolutions.co.uk/ ). I was asking myself the same question in 2019. You can use any programming language, but have settled on this tech-stack Python, Scrapy ( https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy ), Redis, PostgreSQL. for the following reasons: [1] Scrapy is a well-documented framework, so any Python programmer can start using it after 1 month of…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?”Interesting!...I'm not a lawyer, so the content for this piece was based on commentary in the below article. Was written by their lawyer, but would love to hear your counter point to it. Always good to get multiple viewpoints on something. https://www.zyte.com/blog/van-buren-a-victory-for-web-scrape...
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on “The State of Web Scraping 2022”We have to crawl about 60-80k news websites per day [0]. I've spent about 1 month to test how scrapy could be a fit for our purposes. And, quite surprisingly, it was hard to design a distributed web crawler. Scrapy is great for those in-the-middle tasks where you need to crawl a bit + process data on the go. We ended up just using requests to crawl the web. Then post-process the web pages in the next step. Many than…
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on “How to Crawl the Web with Scrapy”> should automatically scan my emails, texts and chats Great, easy to integrate one service with the APIs of a bunch of others! > Also, want it to be 100% local and privacy first. ...but in combination? Never going to happen. Ask yourself: who's signing up for the API keys to enable the client-side service to talk to all these services? Is it the end-user, or is it this software's developer? If it's the software's d…
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on “Salesforce, but for Dating”