Building Web Scraping Architecture for AI Companies

Augustas Pelakauskas

Last updated by Danielė Virinaitė

2026-05-04

1 min read

AI Summary:

Web data drives AI development, but collecting it reliably can still be seen as a challenge. This white paper presents a web scraping architecture designed to efficiently gather structured data for AI training without IP timeouts or other interruptions.

According to Fei-Fei Li, godmother of AI, data is critical for learning. And good AI models require good data. The quality and quantity of training data directly impact the model's performance and accuracy. In AI training, quantity has a quality of its own, improving inference when provided with more volume.

Web data drives AI development

The World Wide Web is by far the largest source of multimodal data for AI applications. This white paper introduces web scraping as a means of sourcing AI training data.

We hope the architecture provided in this paper will help enter the world of large-scale web data collection. Completing the actions of the data extraction architecture will grant software that efficiently collects structured data for AI training without IP timeouts.

The presented tools and methods are for collecting publicly available web data that is not protected by login credentials and falls under the terms of fair use.

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Building Web Scraping Architecture for AI Companies

What to expect from this white paper?

In this whitepaper, you’ll find the following nuances of understanding and building a web scraping architecture:

The importance of data in AI training
Web data collection challenges
Web data extraction architecture
Oxylabs solutions for web data collection

Explore similar web data collection topics detailed in Oxylabs’ white papers.

About the author

Augustas Pelakauskas

Former Senior Technical Copywriter

Augustas Pelakauskas was a Senior Technical Copywriter at Oxylabs. Coming from an artistic background, he is deeply invested in various creative ventures - the most recent being writing. After testing his abilities in freelance journalism, he transitioned to tech content creation. When at ease, he enjoys the sunny outdoors and active recreation. As it turns out, his bicycle is his fourth-best friend.

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