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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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…
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…
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…
Review Scraping Benchmark: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Decodo
We tested 5 web scraping providers across 5 major review platforms for a total of 12,500 requests, and measured success rate, completion time, and metadata fields. You can read benchmark methodology section for more details on the testing process. Bright Data achieved the highest average success rate at 78% across all five review platforms and…
Crunchbase Scraper (Python): Tutorial & Benchmark
Crunchbase is protected by Cloudflare’s enterprise-grade anti-bot system, which blocks most automated scrapers. Even advanced tools like Selenium often return 403 errors or endless “Just a moment…” pages. Learn how to scrape Crunchbase with Python: setting up your environment, using a web unlocker to bypass restrictions, and extracting data from Crunchbase search results and company…
Top 5 Indeed Web Scrapers Compared
We benchmarked 5 web scraping providers on Indeed job postings with 2,500 requests, measuring success rate, completion time, and metadata output. You can read our benchmark methodology for more details on our testing process. Bright Data was the only provider to return structured JSON for Indeed, delivering 25 parsed fields per job posting. The other…
Best Zillow Scraper APIs Compared: Performance review
We benchmarked best five web scraping providers on Zillow, one of the top real estate domains, running over 1,250 scrape requests across all providers. Each provider received an identical set of property listing URLs and was evaluated on completion time, success rate, and the number of structured data fields returned per listing. We also analyzed…
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…
2026 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…