Leveraging Web Scraping for Economic Research: A Collaboration with Researcher from Aston University

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partners with Dr. Ngoc Dieu Linh Vi, a lecturer in Economics at Aston University to provide free access to Oxylabs web scraping solutions.

Gabija Birgile

2024-08-12

2 min read

Don't Miss Out: OxyCon® 2024 Agenda Unveiled!

This year's OxyCon has captured the attention of the entire data gathering industry. The time has come to unveil what we have planned for our virtual event on September 25th.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-08-07

2 min read

How to Read JSON Files in JavaScript: Tutorial

Find out how to load and read JSON files using JavaScript with practical code samples. Discover common errors, use cases, and advanced tips for your next project.

Vytenis Kaubrė

2024-07-26

5 min read

LLM Web Scraping: Integrate Assistants API with Scraped Data

Learn to develop AI-based assistants that use real-time website data to answer questions. Find out about the Assistants API and LLM web scraping for successful AI projects.

Vytenis Kaubrė

2024-07-24

6 min read

Web Scraping With Cheerio and Node.js: Step-by-Step Guide

Learn to scrape websites with Cheerio and Axios in Node.js. This guide covers setup, extracting data, and caching for efficient web scraping.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-07-23

5 min read

How to Find Proxy Server Address

Learn step-by-step instructions on finding a proxy server IP address on different browsers and mobile devices to enhance your online privacy and security.

Yelyzaveta Hayrapetyan

2024-07-16

3 min read

What are HTTP Headers: Examples and Most Common Types

In this article we will define HTTP headers, and discuss their purpose. What’s more, we will cover why using and optimizing HTTP headers are essential when web scraping.

Mantas Miksenas

2024-07-10

7 min read

Fingerprinting Tactics with Pyppeteer and Playwright

Make sure to secure a slot in your calendar on July 10, 2024, to join us for a value-packed webinar hosted by Paulius Stundžia, Senior Developer at Oxylabs.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-06-26

2 min read

How to Find Elements With Selenium in Python

Learn about the most effective techniques for finding elements using Selenium.

Enrika Pavlovskytė

2024-06-21

5 min read

Wget vs cURL for Downloading Files in Linux

Learn about the differences between cURL and Wget in terms of structure, use cases, functionalities, and more.

Enrika Pavlovskytė

2024-06-21

4 min read

OxyCon® 2024: Unlock the Power of Data With Web Scraping

Join us on September 25, 2024 to dive into the ever-changing landscape of web scraping.

Yelyzaveta Hayrapetyan

2024-06-19

2 min read

APIs Decoded: Simplify Data Extraction

Oxylabs hosted a webinar to discover how API endpoints can help uplift your scraping operations.

Enrika Pavlovskytė

2024-06-19

1 min read

How to Download Files With cURL

Learn how to download files with cURL, including using essential parameters, handling redirects, and managing the process.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-05-30

5 min read

How to Ignore SSL Certificate With cURL

In this article, we talk about SSL certificates, why you might want to bypass them, and how to do it with curl.

Enrika Pavlovskytė

2024-05-30

3 min read

The Ferret Joins "Project 4β" to Boost Scottish Investigative Journalism

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partners with an award-winning Scottish investigative journalism platform "The Ferret".

Gabija Birgile

2024-05-17

2 min read

Driving Social Impact Through Web Intelligence: "Project 4β" Welcomes Global Witness

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partners with an independent, non-profit climate change organisation "Global Witness" to elevate environmental monitoring and research.

Gabija Birgile

2024-05-16

2 min read

Mastering SEO Monitoring Systems: Challenges & Solutions

Watch Oxylabs' webinar to learn the principles of building an SEO monitoring system for data-driven decision-making.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-05-14

2 min read

Automated Web Scraper With Python AutoScraper [Guide]

Learn how to use Python for building a web scraper that automatically acquires data at set periods.

Dovydas Vėsa

2024-05-06

6 min read

How to Overcome Anti-Bot Systems: Insights & Tactics

Join Fabien Vauchelles and Denis Zyk as they immerse in the world of anti-bot systems and share bypassing techniques you can implement in your scraping tasks.

Yelyzaveta Hayrapetyan

2024-04-22

2 min read

Optimization of Inventory Level Tracking in E-Commerce

This free white paper provides a general overview of inventory level tracking, its trends, usage scenarios, and the process of finding and getting relevant data.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-04-19

1 min read

"Project 4β" Invited Vilnius University Students to Compete for an Internship at Oxylabs

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partnered with Vilnius University and introduced a challenge for students enrolled in the Information Systems and Cyber Security program, offering the chance to secure a paid internship at Oxylabs.

Gabija Birgile

2024-04-18

1 min read

The Oxylabs Team Goes to the RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco

The Oxylabs team goes to the RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco to network and share advanced solutions for web data collection in cybersecurity.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-04-08

2 min read

Top Web Scraping Discord Servers

Discover the best Discord servers and proxy solutions for web scraping - join our community!

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-04-08

4 min read

“Project 4β” Shares Expertise with Birmingham City University

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" shared expertise with MA in Data Journalism students of the Birmingham School of Media and data journalists of BBC Shared Data Unit and BBC England Data Unit.

Gabija Birgile

2024-04-05

2 min read

Guide to Scraping Data from Websites to Excel with Web Query

Check this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to scrape data from websites into Excel. Find out Excel's capabilities of extracting information from various websites.

Iveta Liupševičė

2024-04-05

6 min read

How to Scrape Google Finance with Python

Follow our detailed walkthrough for scraping public data (stock titles, prices, and pricing changes in percentages) from Google Finance.

Dovydas Vėsa

2024-04-03

3 min read

How to Scrape AliExpress With Python

Find out how to scrape AliExpress product data on a large scale without blocks. See Python code examples for scraping search results, products, reviews, and top-selling products.

Vytenis Kaubrė

2024-04-03

10 min read

Reading & Parsing JSON Data With Python: Tutorial

JSON is a common standard used by websites and APIs, and natively supported by modern databases such as PostgreSQL. In this guide, we explain how to handle JSON data with Python.

Monika Maslauskaite

2024-03-28

8 min read

Navigating Legal Landscapes in Web Scraping

Join Denas Grybauskas and Alex Reese on April 8th in our upcoming webinar as they unravel key legal factors.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-03-25

2 min read

What Is a Proxy Server & How Does It Work?

In this article, we'll answer the most commonly asked questions the web scraping community has on what is a proxy - the most powerful tool for data gathering.

Adomas Sulcas

2024-03-22

13 min read

How to Test Proxies: 5 Ways

This article discusses the tools that can be used to test a proxy's performance.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-03-20

5 min read

How to Use cURL With Proxy?

In this step-by-step guide, you will go through the basics of how to use cURL with proxy. Also, you will get bonus tips on smooth and easy proxy usage.

Iveta Liupševičė

2024-03-18

7 min read

15 Tips on How to Crawl a Website Without Getting Blocked

Web crawling and web scraping are essential for data gathering. Getting blacklisted while scraping data is a common issue for those who don’t know how to crawl a website without getting blocked. We gathered a list of actions to prevent getting blacklisted while scraping and crawling websites.

Adelina Kiskyte

2024-03-15

7 min read

How to Solve Proxy Status Error Codes

Do you keep running into proxy errors and have no clue what is causing them? Check out this blog post to learn the most common proxy error status codes and how to fix them.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-03-13

6 min read

How to Scrape Airbnb Listing Data With Python

Learn how to scrape Airbnb listings and search results in Python and bypass Airbnb’s bot-detection measures. Gather prices, host data, reviews, and more.

Vytenis Kaubrė

2024-03-06

8 min read

"Project 4β" Partners with Bellingcat to Elevate Open Source Investigations

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partners with Bellingcat - a renowned nonprofit, independent investigative collective of researchers and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.

Gabija Birgile

2024-03-05

2 min read

How to Analyze Competitors’ Google Ads: 5 Methods

Find out the 5 ways to analyze your Google Ads competition. From simple SERP checks to automated web scraping that gathers Google ads data in real-time and at scale.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-03-01

7 min read

Oxylabs is Europe's Fastest-Growing Web Data Collection Company for the Third Consecutive Year

Financial Times and Statista's FT1000 list, a prestigious annual ranking of Europe's top-performing companies, has recognized Oxylabs as the continent’s fastest-growing public data acquisition company for the third consecutive year.

Gabija Birgile

2024-03-01

1 min read

How to Utilize Machine Learning for Better Web Scraping

Watch an insightful session with Tadas Gedgaudas, a seasoned developer at Oxylabs, to discover the transformative power of machine learning in web scraping.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-02-26

2 min read

Meet us at Shoptalk 2024 in Las Vegas!

Get excited for the annual Shoptalk conference, where Oxylabs are once again participating!

Danielius Radavicius

2024-02-22

2 min read

Fresh Tech Perspectives at Big Data & AI World

Oxylabs will be catching tech trends at Big Data & AI World and you should too.

Enrika Pavlovskytė

2024-02-13

1 min read

How to Extract Data from A Website?

Making data-driven business decisions nowadays is the number one priority for many companies. If you are interested in this field, you should learn how to extract data from websites. Check out!

Iveta Liupševičė

2024-02-07

10 min read

How to Scrape Images from a Website With Python

In our second installment, we will be discussing how to scrape images from websites. We reuse code used in our older article so be sure to read that one as well!

Adomas Sulcas

2024-02-07

6 min read

"Project 4β" Partners With Civic Resilience Initiative

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partnered with Civic Resilience Initiative - a Lithuanian non-profit, that focuses its activities on increasing the resilience of Lithuanian and other societies of the region through the means of engaging education.

Gabija Birgile

2024-02-05

2 min read

Optimize Inventory Level Tracking With Scraper APIs

Make sure to secure a slot in your schedule on February 21, 2024, to join us for an insightful webinar hosted by Aleksandras Šulženko, Product Owner at Oxylabs.

Maryia Stsiopkina

2024-02-05

2 min read

"Project 4β" Partners With Confirmado

Oxylabs' pro bono initiative "Project 4β" partnered with Confirmado, a collaborative project to fight disinformation

Gabija Birgile

2024-02-01

2 min read

7 Best Web Data Scraping Extensions for Chrome

See what the value of using web scraping extensions is and how they compare to each other.

Danielius Radavicius

2024-01-19

11 min read

Generative AI Hype Might Go Down Considerably Over the Next Year, Experts Predict

Adi Andrei and Ali Chaudhry, prominent AI experts and members of the AI/ML advisory board at Oxylabs, and Juras Juršėnas, Oxylabs’ Chief Operating Officer, shared their ideas about the possible state of AI in 2024.

Vytautas Kirjazovas

2024-01-11

5 min read

Scraping Real Estate Data With Python: Step-by-Step

A guide to extracting public data from Redfin using Python and Oxylabs' Web Scraper API. From using the API to processing data and saving the result.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-01-11

3 min read

Web Scraping With Ruby

A tutorial that covers the basics of web scraping static and dynamic web pages using Ruby programming language.

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-01-03

8 min read