Web Data Scraping
Web data scraping refers to the methodologies, and tools for programmatically extracting structured data from websites, such as DOM parsing, API interaction, and headless browser automation.
The Best Managed Data Services in 2025
Managed data collection services provide a fast alternative to building and maintaining a data infrastructure and allows businesses to focus on their core activities. Which functions would you like to outsource? [aim_list] [/aim_list] Top managed web data collection providers All services claim to be compatible with GDPR and CCPA and offer self-service options.
Is Web Scraping Legal? Laws, Ethics, and Best Practices
If you’re scraping the web, you’ve probably already seen how it has benefited your business. However, if your site is being scraped, it may raise concerns about legality, ethics, and potential harm.
MCP Benchmark: Top MCP Servers for Web Access in 2025
MCP (Model Context Protocol) establishes a standardized communication bridge between AI agents and applications, allowing AI apps and LLMs to interact with external tools and services. We benchmarked 8 MCP servers across web search and extraction, as well as browser automation tasks, by running 4 different tasks 5 times on all suitable MCPs.
GeoSurf Proxy Server: A Comprehensive Review in 2025
“GeoSurf, an Israeli proxy service provider, has permanently ceased operations as of December 20, 2023, following a legal defeat against Bright Data in patent litigation. Subsequently, GeoSurf announced its shutdown and is directing its customers to Bright Data, exiting the proxy business by December 22, 2023.
Web Data Collection Benchmark with 30M Requests in 2025
We crawled web pages more than 30 million times while using more than 50 different products from 6 leading web data infrastructure companies. See criteria for enterprise web data & analysis of leading products: Benchmark results Leading results in each column are bold.
Best 12+ AI Web Scraping Tools You Should Know in 2025
We’ve categorized AI web scraping tools into the three main groups based on their technical complexity and intended audience.
ChatGPT Web Scraping: Tutorial & Applications in 2025
ChatGPT is an easy way to bring AI to web scraping, saving developers from manual parsing work that requires constant updates. Using LLMs is becoming one of the best web scraping practices.
Large-Scale Web Scraping: Techniques & Challenges [2025]
We benchmarked leading web scraper APIs with 12,500 requests to e-commerce platforms and search engines. Then, we tested the reliability of the underlying services (i.e., residential proxies) with 5,000 and 100,000 parallel requests. Based on these experiences, we outline how to efficiently and ethically scrape large-scale data.
How to Scrape Images with Python for SEO in 2025
When scraping image data with Python library, the goal can go beyond just downloading the images. You may need to collect metadata and additional contextual information associated with the images on a webpage. This typically involves gathering details like the image’s alt text, dimensions, captions, file sizes, and other relevant image data.
10 Web Scraping Techniques & Tools for Every Skill Level
Web scraping is not the only way to collect data from websites. Various other methods (e.g. LLMs) are available and each technique has trade-offs.