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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- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 22
Best Glassdoor Scrapers: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Decodo
To compare how well different tools handle Glassdoor‘s CAPTCHAs, login overlays, and frequent layout changes, we tested 5 leading web data scrapers across 2,500 requests and tracked each provider’s success rate, completion time, and metadata coverage. You can read our benchmark methodology for more details on our testing process. Bright Data was the only provider…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 22
Web Scraping Craigslist: Best Craigslist Scrapers
Craigslist’s page structure has stayed largely unchanged for years, simple, mostly static HTML with minimal JavaScript and few anti-bot defenses. To see how well scrapers handle that simplicity, we ran 500 Craigslist job postings through 5 providers, totaling 2,500 requests, and measured each one’s success rate and completion time. Since all five providers reached %100…
- Web Data ScrapingBenchmarkOct 22
Top 6 Apple App Store Scrapers: Bright Data, SerpAPI & Zyte
We benchmarked 6 web scraping providers against 1,000 Apple App Store pages, for a total of 6,000 requests, and measured success rate, completion time, and the number of metadata fields each provider returned. Since all providers achieved 100% success rates, we focused our comparison on the number of metadata fields returned and end-to-end response times.…
- E-commerce ScrapingBenchmarkOct 22
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…
- E-commerce ScrapingInsightOct 22
Top 6 Food Delivery Scrapers: Benchmark & Use Cases
We benchmarked 6 web scraping providers to see how they handle food delivery data scraping, sending 12,000 requests in total across the top 4 food delivery platforms, and measured success rate, completion time, and metadata coverage. See the benchmark methodology section for more details on the testing process. Different platforms expose different layers of data,…
- Real Estate ScrapingBenchmarkOct 22
Top 7 Best Real Estate Scrapers: Bright Data, Apify & Oxylabs
We benchmarked five web scraping providers across five major real estate domains, running 1,500 property listing URLs through each provider for a total of 7,500 requests. See the methodology section for more details on the testing process. Apify does not offer dedicated actors for Realtor, Rightmove, and Realestate.au, so these domains were excluded from Apify’s…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 22
We Benchmarked the Best Web Scraping APIs
We benchmarked web data providers in categories ranging from e-commerce and social media to jobs, real estate and food delivery, sending more than 600,000 requests to 10,000+ live domains to see how they handle enterprise data collection. Our web data scraping page summarizes the results of all our web data benchmarks in one place. Below,…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 22
Web Crawler Benchmark to Feed Websites to AI
We benchmarked four crawl APIs across three domains of varying difficulty at three max depth levels (5, 10, 20) with a 1,000-page limit, measuring crawl coverage, execution time, link discovery, markdown link quality, and title extraction accuracy. If you aim to: You can read our benchmark methodology. Firecrawl consistently crawled around 100 pages on theregister.com…