Data Solutions & Practices
Data is the fundamental resource that powers business operations and drives strategic decisions. We cover modern data practices and the tools, platforms, and approaches organizations use to manage, transform, and get value from their data.
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Top 5 Website Unblockers Benchmarked & Compared
We benchmarked 4 leading web data providers across the top 10,000 domains, running a total of 260,000 requests. Each provider was tested at multiple concurrency levels to measure how they behave under increasing load. In addition, we ran a dedicated markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs to evaluate how each provider handles clean content delivery…
5 Best Google Maps Scraper APIs in 2026: Tested & Ranked
To find the best Google Maps scraper, we benchmarked the top web scraping providers, Apify, Oxylabs, Octoparse, and SerpApi by running 100 searches for each. We tested 10 categories and analyzed 4,000 business listings. Google Maps listing data was more accessible than Google Maps reviews in our reviews scraping benchmark. Top providers reached 100% success…
eBay Scraping: Top 6 Providers Compared
We benchmarked eBay across 4 web scraping providers, totaling 1,400 requests over search and product pages of 7 eBay country sites, measuring both success rate and end-to-end completion time. You can read more about our benchmark methodology. Because only Bright Data and Apify returned structured JSON, they were the only providers whose output could be…
Top 5 Home Depot Scrapers Benchmarked & Compared
We benchmarked five web data providers on Home Depot, each fetching the same 50 product and search pages at 5 concurrent requests, for a total of 250 requests. You can read more about our benchmark methodology. Bright Data offers a dedicated scraper API for Home Depot, while Apify provides a general e-commerce actor. Because both…
7 Best Amazon Scrapers Ranked by Performance
Amazon’s anti-scraping technology keeps getting harder to bypass. To find out which tools actually hold up, we benchmarked the leading 5 Amazon scraper APIs over 2,750 requests across 11 Amazon domains, scoring every provider on success rate and end-to-end completion time. Read Amazon scraping benchmark methodology for more details about our testing process. You can…
Tested Best SOCKS5 Proxies in 2026
SOCKS5 providers differ in which proxy types carry it, which ports they allow, and whether UDP works. We benchmarked the top SOCKS5 provider against Amazon, Bing, eBay, and YouTube on residential IPs. We compare port rules, UDP behavior, authentication, and cost per GB across a wider set of providers. * Residential SOCKS5 proxies monthly plan…
How to Use SOCKS5 Proxy: Mac, Windows & Mobile
Entering a host and port for SOCKS5 in Windows or iPhone settings can cause loss of internet access. The operating system does not know the endpoint uses SOCKS5. A SOCKS server needs a SOCKS request. An HTTP proxy needs an HTTP request or a CONNECT tunnel. Sending the wrong request type will fail. Some platforms…
Best AI Web Scraping Tools: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Apify
Sites change their layout and the fields you need from a page shift over time. These changes break manually-coded scrapers. AI scrapers can be updated with simple prompts, and some can repair a saved scraper when the site changes. We benchmarked top AI web scraping tools across the top 10 e-commerce domains to see their…
Proxy Free Trial: How to Test Premium Proxies
Large proxy providers with residential pools require company verification for free trials. Providers with instant trials usually offer datacenter IPs. These are inexpensive for them. Many offers are labeled as free trials but are not. Some providers use the term for money-back guarantees, paid starter packages, or permanent free tiers. The next section lists what…
Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs in 2026
We benchmarked the leading SERP providers using 18,000 live requests across Google, Bing, and Yandex. See the top 6 providers outperforming in our speed and data richness tests: Compare providers’ median response time and the average number of fields that they returned in our benchmark: 1,200 queries were used in this benchmark, including a total…