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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- Social Media ScrapingInsightNov 3
Best Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Oxylabs & Decodo
We benchmarked seven web scraping APIs with 9,000 Facebook requests on 1,500 URLs: 500 profiles, 500 posts and 500 reels. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the number of parsed metadata fields returned. Bright Data returned JSON for every Facebook page type. Apify returned JSON for profiles and posts, SerpApi and…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkNov 3
Best TikTok Scrapers: Scrape Video Data
A TikTok scraper collects public data from TikTok, including video metadata, profile details, engagement metrics, and comments, without using TikTok’s official API. We benchmarked six web scraping APIs with 6,000 TikTok requests, sending each provider the same 1,000 URLs: 500 profiles and 500 posts. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkNov 3
The Best LinkedIn Scrapers
We benchmarked four scraping APIs with 6,000 LinkedIn requests, sending each provider the same 1,500 URLs: 500 profiles, 500 company pages and 500 posts. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the number of parsed metadata fields returned. Read our methodology for details about the LinkedIn benchmark. Bright Data was the only…
- E-commerce ScrapingBenchmarkNov 2
eBay Scraping: Top 7 Providers Compared
We benchmarked eBay across 5 web scraping providers, totaling 1,750 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. Bright Data, Apify and SerpApi were the three providers that returned parsed JSON. Field counts came to 59…
- Review ScrapingBenchmarkNov 2
Top 6 Amazon Review Scrapers Compared
To compare how web data scraping providers handle Amazon review extraction, we tested 5 web scraping providers on the same set of Amazon product review URLs, totaling 2,500 requests across all providers. Read our benchmark methodology for more detail on our testing process. Amazon was the most accessible platform in our reviews scraping benchmark. The…
- Scraping ToolsOpen World EvaluationNov 2
Top 11 Open Source Web Crawlers for LLM & AI
Recent advances in generative AI have reshaped what developers need from web crawlers. Agentic crawlers now use natural-language prompts to select links rather than fixed rules, and produce token-efficient markdown natively. At the same time, the classic frameworks for large-scale batch crawling remain irreplaceable for enterprise and research use. Language: Python | License: Apache 2.0…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 2
5 Best Google Maps Scraper APIs: Tested & Ranked
To find the best Google Maps scraper, we benchmarked five web scraping providers, Apify, SerpApi, Oxylabs, Zyte and Nimble, by requesting the same 1,000 businesses from each. The businesses span 10 categories across 10 US cities, for 5,000 requests in total. Since all providers exceeded 90% success, we compared completion time: Only SerpApi and Apify…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 2
We Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs
We benchmarked 5 SERP providers using 7,000 live requests across Google, Bing, and Yandex. See which providers came out ahead on success rate and speed: Read the full methodology. We also run live requests every 15 min, with caching disabled, a 60s timeout, and 250+ queries across Google, Bing, and Yandex in the United States.…