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 ToolsBenchmarkSep 29
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…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkSep 28
Best Social Media Scrapers: 75K Requests Tested
We executed 75,000+ test requests across X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook to find the most reliable social media scraping API. Whether you need social media data scraping for business information extraction or a high-scale social media scraping solution, our benchmark reveals the top performers. Use the tool below to estimate your monthly budget based on…
- Scraping Use CasesSep 28
No-Code Financial Data Scraping: Tools & Compliance Tips
While official financial data providers do offer APIs, these are often limited in scope, access, or flexibility for real-time or niche data needs. Financial data scraping has become a common approach to collecting such information, typically using technologies such as web scrapers, headless browsers, and open-source crawlers, which can be paired with proxy/unblocking services when…
- Data ScienceOpen World EvaluationSep 28
+100 Datasets for ML & AI Models
Data is required to leverage or build generative AI or conversational AI solutions. You can use existing datasets available on the market or hire a data collection service. We identified over 100 datasets to train and evaluate machine learning and AI models. Older benchmarks like HumanEval and SWE-bench Verified are now widely considered contaminated or…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkSep 28
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 ScrapingBenchmarkSep 28
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…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkSep 28
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…
- E-commerce ScrapingBenchmarkSep 28
E-Commerce Scraper: 4 Providers Benchmarked
We benchmarked four web data providers across 100 e-commerce domains, fetching 65,000 product and search pages each at 5 to 5,000 concurrent requests. Averaged across concurrency levels, Bright Data reached the highest success rate (76%) at a 16-second median. Apify recorded the highest median response time at 46 seconds. Response time is reported as the…