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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Best Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Bright Data & Decodo
Using Python and a managed Facebook scraping API lets you collect public posts, comments, likes, and shares. This tutorial demonstrates how to scrape Facebook posts by keyword and retrieve their URLs via Google search. Then it explains how to extract detailed post data using the API, along with tips for scaling the process with tools…
Top 12 Antidetect Browsers Evaluated
We evaluated the best free and paid antidetect browsers in 4 dimensions for performance and usability: ** Access and manage your browser profiles and settings through a mobile app. AdsPower Browser’s emphasis on automation makes it highly effective for specific use cases. It is ideal for users focused on desktop-based tasks and those managing automation…
Best AliExpress Scrapers: Decodo, Nimble & Zyte
We benchmarked 4 web scraping providers on aliexpress.com and sent a total of 200 requests at concurrency 5. The results were filtered from e-commerce scraping benchmark, which ran across 100 domains at three concurrency levels (5, 100, and 5000). Read AliExpress scraping benchmark methodology for more details about our testing process. Decodo reached 78% success…
Etsy Scrapers: Benchmarked Top 4 APIs
We benchmarked 4 web scraping providers on etsy.com. The results were filtered from our e-commerce scraping benchmark covering 100 e-commerce domains. A total of 200 requests were sent to Etsy at concurrency 5. You can read more about our Etsy scraping benchmark methodology. You can scrape either product or search pages and get full product…
Web Archive APIs: 4 Top Providers Tested & Compared
A web archive holds pages that were collected before you asked for them, so you can pull them without crawling the sites yourself. What each provider stores, and how much of it they will hand over, varies a lot. We tested 4 of them with sample queries to see how they work and what they…
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…
Best LinkedIn Proxies: Automation & Scraping
We benchmarked different proxy types for LinkedIn scraping and account management. A proxy alone won’t keep a LinkedIn account safe. Success comes from slow, human-like actions, one high-quality residential or mobile proxy per account, and avoiding aggressive automation. The providers below are compared for general proxy capabilities and lawful, authorized use cases. Bright Data offers…
Best AI Web Scraping Tools
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…
LinkedIn Datasets: Profile & Company Data
LinkedIn datasets can be categorized into profile data and company data: It’s important to know the different types of LinkedIn data available when buying from a verified provider or seeking a specific company dataset. Common fields across all providers: The following fields are present in all three providers and were removed from the tables above…
Top 4 Google Play Scraping Providers Compared
We benchmarked four web scraping providers across Google Play product page URLs, sending 4,000 requests in total. For each request, we measured how reliably the provider returned data, how long it took from submission to final response, and how many metadata fields the response contained. Vendors are ranked by the number of structured metadata fields…