Gulbahar Karatas
Gülbahar is an AIMultiple industry analyst focused on web data collection, applications of web data and application security.
Professional experience
She previously worked as a marketer in U.S. Commercial Service.
Research interests
She is a frequent user of the products that she researches. For example, she is part of AIMultiple's web data benchmark team that has been annually measuring the performance of top web data infrastructure providers.
Education
Gülbahar has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management in 9 Eylul University.
Latest Articles from Gulbahar
12 Best Residential Proxy Providers (Benchmark) in 2026
As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites and run residential proxy benchmarks, including a load test with 100,000 parallel requests.
Best Instagram Scrapers: Tools, Benchmarks & Python Tutorial
Instagram remains one of the most aggressive platforms for blocking automated scraping due to advanced anti-bot measures like TLS fingerprinting and IP reputation checks. Whether you need a high-performance scraper API for business or a custom Python script for research, this guide provides a data-backed comparison of the best solutions available today.
Is Web Scraping Legal? Laws, Ethics, and Best Practices
If you’re scraping the web, you’ve likely seen how it has benefited your business. However, as of 2026, the legal landscape has shifted dramatically. While historical cases focused on “unauthorized access,” new landmark lawsuits involving AI training and technical circumvention are redrawing the lines of what is permissible. See below for the most recent web scraping lawsuits (including the Reddit v. Perplexity and NYT v.
Best Social Media Scraping Tools: Results from 75,000+ Test Requests
We executed 75,000+ test requests across X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook to find the most reliable social media scraping API. Whether you need social media data scraping for business information extraction or a high-scale web scraping social media solution, our benchmark reveals the top performers: Key performance findings Success rate performance (Decodo): In our tests, Decodo achieved a 91.
7 Best Amazon Scraper APIs Ranked by Performance ['26]
Amazon’s anti-scraping technology is harder to bypass than ever. To find out which tools actually work, we benchmarked top Amazon scraper APIs over 1,400 URLs from 7 Amazon domains and identified the most reliable and cost-efficient solutions.
Web Scraping API Comparison: Speed & Success Rate Benchmarks
We benchmarked leading web scraper API services using 12,500 requests across various domains. This web crawling services comparison goes beyond marketing claims to reveal real-time performance in e-commerce (Amazon, Target), search engines (SERP), and social media. If you are looking for the fastest latency or an affordable e-commerce scraping API, our data-driven analysis below will guide your choice.
6 Best CAPTCHA Solving Services for Web Scraping [2026]
When automated processes encounter a CAPTCHA, they are typically halted and require human intervention to proceed. CAPTCHA-solving services resolve CAPTCHAs so the user’s automation can proceed without their involvement.
Best Video Scrapers for High-Scale Video Data Extraction
Major video-sharing networks are highly dynamic environments that present significant challenges for automated data extraction. Technical hurdles, such as infinite-scrolling layouts prevalent in short-form video feeds, often cause standard scrapers to fail to consistently retrieve data.
5 Best Facebook Scrapers + Facebook Scraping with Python
Using Python and a managed scraper API for Facebook scraping allows you to collect public posts, comments, likes, and shares. This tutorial demonstrates how to scrape Facebook posts by keyword and retrieve their URLs via Google search.
Best Proxies for Video Data Extraction: Performance Tests & Top Providers
High latency, bandwidth bottlenecks, and aggressive IP blocking make video data extraction one of the most challenging tasks. A standard proxy setup often can’t keep up with the advanced anti-bot measures used to protect streaming content. This article analyzes data on response time and success rate, showing how top video proxies performed under real-world load.
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