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Oxylabs Webinar: Web Scraping for Business - Why Every Company Should Do It

Where to start with web scraping? What tools to choose? Get your questions answered by web scraping experts and watch a live demonstration of a powerful web scraper!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-06-23

2 min read

Manage Your Datacenter Proxies Via Datacenter Proxy API

From now on, you can access and manage your Datacenter Proxies via our Datacenter Proxy API! With it, you can replace your IPs from a specific subnet in your existing proxy list.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-06-22

1 min read

Free Webinar: Why Ethically Sourced Proxies Should Be The Only Proxies

Join this webinar to learn why ethical proxy acquisition should be important to businesses that use proxy services as much as the services themselves.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-06-17

2 min read

What is Jupyter Notebook: Introduction

Find out what Jupyter Notebook is, its use cases, how to set it up, and whether it’s ideal for beginners. Importantly, this article discusses the application of Jupyter Notebook for web scraping.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-06-16

10 min read

OxyCon 2021: Web Scraping Conference You Don't Want To Miss

Save your seat at OxyCon 2021 on August 25–26, and join the discussion on the most relevant topics in the world of web scraping! The two-day virtual event will bring global business leaders and Oxylabs' experienced team together for in-depth, engaging talks and workshops.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-06-02

2 min read

What Is A Honeypot and How Does It Work?

A honeypot is a security system designed to attract malicious activity from cybercriminals. Read this article to understand how honeypot traps affect web scraping.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-06-01

5 min read

Residential Proxy Sourcing: Risks

Proxy-reliant companies have long been familiar with the benefits of residential proxies. However, very little is known about the risks of using unethical or even illegal proxies. Lack of knowledge on this matter is dangerous both for proxy network participants and companies using residential proxies. Read this article to learn more about proxy sourcing risks and how to avoid them.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2021-05-27

2 min read

Pricing Intelligence: Focus on Data-Driven Decision Making

If you are interested in starting to make data-driven decisions, this white paper is for you! Learn everything about pricing intelligence and how third-party data gathering solutions help you forget web scraping challenges.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-05-21

1 min read

Building Price Scraping Tools: Picking the Best Proxies

What are price scrapers? Why is it essential for e-commerce businesses, and what tools should they be using? Find all about it in our new article.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-05-13

6 min read

Web Crawler vs Web Scraper: The Differences

Data scraping has become the ultimate tool for business development with a significant influence in nearly any business area. With this article, we're covering the intricacies of data scraping in greater detail.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-05-04

6 min read

Residential Proxy Sourcing: Worst Practices

Unethically sourced residential proxies

Jurgita Tuzikaite

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2021-04-29

3 min read

What Is Online Reputation Management?

What is online reputation management? Why is it beneficial? What are the main challenges of monitoring it? Read the article and find out more.

Vejune Tamuliunaite

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-03-29

8 min read

Under the Hood of Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

Counterfeiting is a big issue around the world. Anti-counterfeiting technologies have to be well advanced to be capable of finding counterfeit goods online, anywhere in the world. Web scraping tools and proxies are an inseparable part of modern anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-03-24

5 min read

Oxylabs Signs Exclusive Contract with Honeygain

Honeygain and Oxylabs have signed an exclusive agreement! Find out how this will strengthen our long-lasting partnership and benefit the proxy industry at large.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2021-03-18

2 min read

How to Avoid Phishing With Proxies?

How to avoid phishing with premium proxies and brand new web scraping techniques? Read this article and learn more!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-03-15

5 min read

Oxylabs Webinar: Web Scraping From a Legal Perspective

Watch our free legal webinar! We aim to help those who perhaps do not have a legal team to maneuver public data gathering roads.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-03-05

2 min read

Free White Paper: Guide to Threat Intelligence Data Acquisition

One of the cybersecurity practices that modern companies use to avoid potential dangers is threat intelligence. Learn how threat intelligence enables businesses to make faster and data-backed security decisions and be proactive in the fight against threat actors.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-03-05

1 min read

Free White Paper: Commercial Data as Alternative Data for Financial Industry

More and more data gets created every day, and asset management companies and hedge funds can leverage this data for analysis to reveal trends, patterns, and risks. However, traditional data has not been covering the needs of the competitive investment market. Meanwhile, alternative data enables investors to make better, informed predictions.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-03-04

1 min read

How Proxies Help Improve Ad Verification?

Did you know that proxies help advertisers check if their ads are displayed in the proper context and seen by the right audience? Read this article to learn everything about ad verification and the most suitable proxies for this process.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-03-01

4 min read

Web Scraping Job Postings: Challenges and Best Solutions

No matter how you will be using job search aggregation data, data gathering requires good scraping solutions. In this blog post, we'll go over where to start, and which solutions work best.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-02-26

4 min read

Finance Companies Pay the Price for Overlooking Alternative Data

Billions of dollars have been lost due to a lack of alternative data monitoring. GameStop revolt is just an example of a lost opportunity to optimize public data in order to make informed investment predictions.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-02-03

2 min read

What Are Backconnect Proxies?

Learning what a backconnect proxy is may help you choose the best solution for your web scraping tasks. Backconnect proxies are very popular for web scraping because they allow you to make each request with a different IP address. Read more to understand how these proxies work and what issues they help to overcome.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-01-28

4 min read

Screening Multiple Targets for Cybersecurity

Monitoring and gathering cyber threat intelligence can be difficult due to the complex nature of the issue and the variety of targets. Web scraping may help businesses to monitor their sensitive content and expand the visibility of its use. But what are the challenges when screening multiple targets? Should you use an in-house built web scraper or ready-to-use solution? Which proxies should you choose? Read and find out more!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-01-14

1 min read

How to Build a Web Scraper?

If you’re considering starting web scraping for your business, this article is what you need. Learn the necessary steps of building a web scraper in Python or JavaScript programming languages. You will also find out the most common web scraping challenges and how to deal with them.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-01-13

11 min read

What Is HTTP Proxy?

What is an HTTP proxy? What is an HTTP proxy server used for? Read this article to find out the answers to these questions, and learn how different HTTP proxy configurations can bring your company various benefits.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-01-12

4 min read

Scraping Images for Intellectual Property Protection

With increased intellectual property infringement cases, monitoring your business assets is crucial more than ever. How can scraping images help to secure your brand? What are the best tools and solutions? Get a free whitepaper and find out more.

Vejune Tamuliunaite

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-01-07

1 min read

Illegal Content: How We Built an AI-powered Tool to Detect It Online

Illegal content detection online is important for making the internet a safer place for everyone. Oxylabs took up the challenge to build a solution that automatically detects restricted content and reports it to governmental authorities. This article explains how this solution was developed and covers every step of the process in detail.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-12-21

3 min read

Online Media Monitoring: Challenges and Solutions

Online media monitoring helps various businesses find out their online reputation, set marketing goals, get the required information about their industry or other relevant topics. However, companies that provide online media monitoring services face many challenges. This article explains what solutions can help these companies deal with encountered issues.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-12-18

8 min read

proxies for email protection

The Ultimate Guide on Choosing Proxies for Email Protection: Free Whitepaper

Cybersecurity companies take care of sensitive clients’ data by scanning emails and detecting suspicious URLs and attachments. Without proxies, the email protection process would not be so effective. This article explains how proxies are involved in this process and what type of proxies are the best for email protection.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-12-14

1 min read

Oxylabs Team Presents a Winning Solution for Cleaner Internet

December 8, 2020, marked a special occasion for Oxylabs. The prototype for the first-of-its-kind solution aimed at automated illegal online content detection was officially presented at the concluding event of the Govtech Lab challenge. The prototype can automatically find and identify illegal visual content in the Lithuanian internet space by utilizing custom-built data acquisition and AI-driven recognition tools.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2020-12-11

1 min read

CEO's Guide to Data Extraction

Data extraction is at the core of many different businesses, from finance to e-commerce companies and everything in between. But what is data extraction? What is it used for and what challenges does it bring? Read all about it here.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-12-09

5 min read

Acquiring Data Directly From Search Engines: Methods

Data from search engine result pages (SERPs) has a lot of value for various industries. Companies use this data to gain a competitive advantage, attract more traffic, and build a better authority. However, acquiring data from SERPs is challenging. There are multiple ways how companies extract data from search engines, and each has its pros and cons.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-12-08

5 min read

Proxies for Cybersecurity Solutions

Proxies are widely used in cybersecurity. Download free white paper and find out which proxies are the best for each use case!

Adomas Sulcas

Adomas Sulcas

2020-12-07

1 min read

brand protection

Free White Paper: The Ultimate Guide on Web Scraping for Brand Protection

Nowadays, public data is an answer to many issues, fighting with brand infringements online as well. Web scraping helps to monitor the web and search for the violations in terms of brand protection to fight against them. This article explains the key insights of successful web scraping for brand protection.

Iveta Vistorskyte

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-12-01

1 min read

Semi-Dedicated Proxies: What Are They?

What are semi-dedicated proxies? How do they work? What are the pros and cons of using semi-dedicated proxies? Read this article and find out more!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2020-11-30

4 min read

What is Dynamic Pricing?

Dynamic pricing is not a new concept but in the competitive online market, it is more relevant than ever. Find out what is dynamic pricing strategy, what companies use it, and learn about the benefits and challenges of real time pricing.

Adelina Kiskyte

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-11-05

5 min read

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