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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Is Web Scraping Legal? Laws & Best Practices
Legal regulations have changed in the web scraping market. While litigation once focused on unauthorized access, new lawsuits related to AI training and technical workarounds are shaping acceptable practices. Disclaimer: Our work is for informational purposes and not legal advice; please get professional legal advice for specific guidance. Web scraping is legal if you scrape…
We Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs
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…
We Benchmarked the Best UK Proxies
We benchmarked the top UK proxy services against high-security British domains, including social media and e-commerce sites, to identify the best UK-based residential proxies. Tested at 15-minute intervals, here are our top picks based on success rates and speed: *Ranges show the minimum and maximum of the daily average success rates and response times measured…
Top 5 Free Chrome Extensions for Web Scraping
A Chrome web scraper extension enables you to collect data such as text, tables, links, images, and lists directly from your browser. Many extensions offer no-code workflows, AI-powered field detection, scheduled scraping, Google Sheets exports, and page-change monitoring. Compare the popular web scraper Chrome extensions by their key capabilities, export options, ease of use, and…
Top 3 Synthetic Document Generators Benchmarked
Synthetic document generators create annotated, realistic document images that help train and evaluate machine learning models without relying on large, manually labeled datasets. We benchmark 3 synthetic document generators, Genalog, DocCreator, and Tonic Textual, by creating more than 2,500 synthetic documents, comparing their effectiveness in realistic layouts, accurate numerical data, and training datasets for document…
Best Discord Proxies: Free Plans, Features & Setup
Discord proxy compatibility depends on which part of Discord needs to be routed. Loading Discord Web requires HTTPS support. Receiving messages and server events depends on a Gateway WebSocket connection. Joining voice channels introduces a separate UDP requirement. The Discord desktop application creates an additional setup problem because it does not provide a documented field…
Large-Scale Web Scraping: 7 Providers Benchmarked
We ran two benchmarks against live websites, from 5 to 5,000 concurrent requests. The first sent 260,000 requests through four web unblockers across the Tranco top 10,000 domains, plus a markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs. The second fetched 65,000 product and search pages from each of five scraping providers across 100 e-commerce domains. Metrics…
AI Data Quality: Challenges & Best Practices
Poor data quality delays the successful deployment of AI and ML projects. 18 Even the most advanced AI algorithms can yield flawed results if the underlying data is of low quality. Explore the importance of data quality in AI, the challenges organizations encounter, and the best practices for ensuring high-quality data: Data quality is essential…
Top 15 Training Data Platforms
A model is as good as the data it learns from. Supervised models need accurate, well-labeled examples to make correct predictions. Training data platforms cover the steps between raw data and a usable dataset: sourcing, labeling, and quality checks. See the top training data platforms, split by data marketplaces and data labeling tools, and mapped…
Best Google Shopping APIs
Selecting the best Google Shopping API depends on whether a business needs to manage its own Merchant Center data or collect public Google Shopping results for market intelligence. Google’s official Merchant API is designed to manage Merchant Center and product data programmatically, while third-party APIs such as SerpApi are used to scrape public Google Shopping…