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Web Data Scraping

The Best Managed Data Services in 2025

Managed data collection services provide a practical alternative to building and maintaining in-house scraping infrastructure, particularly for data-intensive industries such as retail, travel, and financial services.

Jul 254 min read

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.

Jul 176 min read

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.

Jul 185 min read

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.

May 145 min read

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.

Jul 2510 min read

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.

Jul 254 min read

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.

Jul 16 min read

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.

Jul 256 min read

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.

May 267 min read

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.

Jul 256 min read