Oxylabs white papers give in-depth insights on proxy and web scraping solution usage in various fields, from e-commerce to cybersecurity, and much more.

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All-in-one web data collection platform covering every stage of web scraping.

Web Scraper API

Ultra-fast organic search results scraper tailored for AI workflows.

Fast Search API

Anti-bot headless browser for AI agents and advanced scraping.

Headless Browser

AI-powered assistant for generating web scraping and parsing requests.

OxyCopilot

From RAG to autonomous agents, fuel your AI applications with precise, real-time, and multimodal data pipelines at scale.

Data for AI

Gather top 10 organic search results for AI agents in milliseconds.

Instant search results data

Collect massive volumes of multimodal video and audio data for model training.

Video & audio data

Scrape rich and structured web data for model training or RAG pipelines.

Web data from any website

Let AI agents navigate, automate, and extract web data from the toughest targets.

Browser automation

Retrieve up-to-date, pre-indexed web content for RAG and agentic workflows in sub-second.

Web index data

Data types & Use cases

High-speed proxies for uninterrupted video data scraping.

High-Bandwidth Proxies

Complete scraping solution for multimodal video data extraction.

Video Data API

4M original creator-approved videos from 1M individual channels.

Video Datasets

All-in-one web data collection solution covering every stage of web scraping.

A fully queryable, AI-ready search index in clean Markdown or JSON.

Web Intelligence Index

Ultra-fast search results scraper tailored for AI workflows.

Solutions

Crawl a site and extract data from your prompt.

AI-Crawler

Extract structured web data based on your prompt.

AI-Scraper

Control your browser with AI using simple language.

Browser Agent

Search the web, get full content from your prompt.

AI-Search

Crawl a site and get links from your prompt.

AI-Map

Describe what you need — Oxylabs AI Studio handles the rest. Structured web data, no expertise needed.

All features, parameters, and integration details, backed by code samples in every coding language.

Proxy locations

Oxylabs white papers provide the most relevant insights into proxy and web scraping solution usage in different industries.

An extensive guide for businesses covering all aspects of enterprise data collection. 

Public Data Acquisition Solutions for Enterprise: A 2025 Selection Guide

The process of building a workflow that allows you to collect large-scale web data for AI training without IP timeouts.

Building Web Scraping Architecture for AI Companies

Discover data categories, large-scale scraping strategies, and cost optimization tips for fine-tuning your AI models.

Acquiring High-Quality Web Data for LLM Fine-Tuning

The basics of avoiding blocks when web scraping: things to know before starting, actions to implement when scraping, and the complexities of anti-bot detection.

Block-Free Web Scraping: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to better understand, find, and extract inventory level data from online marketplaces, both manually and at a large scale.

Optimization of Inventory Level Tracking in E-Commerce

A general overview of competitive intelligence processes, application scenarios, and their impact on business development.

The Role of Competitive Intelligence in Business Development

An action chain of processes and solutions for public web data collection in the travel industry. The transformation from raw HTML to actionable data.

Using Real-Time Public Data for Competitive Advantage in Travel Industry

An overview of how AI and its subfield, Machine Learning (ML), shape the current trends in web scraping, from the role of ML models to three fundamental changes powered by AI.

How AI Is Changing the Web Scraping Landscape

Learn about the web scraping process for threat intelligence and find out what data gathering solution is the best fit for threat intelligence data acquisition. Read this white paper now. 

Guide to Threat Intelligence Data Acquisition

A guide through the critical stages of online media monitoring and the most significant elements of a well-functioning media tracking infrastructure.

Building a Real-Time Online Media Monitoring Infrastructure

An introduction to the price monitoring action chain, from collecting target URLs to data parsing, along with tips and explanations on the most important elements and processes.

Real-Time Price Monitoring System Architecture

This white paper aims to guide you through the process of large-scale public data gathering with an emphasis on e-commerce. Dive right in and learn more. 

Web Scraping on a Large Scale for E-Commerce

An extensive white paper covering technological challenges connected to alternative data scraping and proposes practical ways to deal with them.

Scraping Alternative Data: Technological Challenges to Keep in Mind

Learn everything about pricing intelligence and how third-party data gathering solutions help you forget web scraping challenges. Start making data-driven decisions right now.

Pricing Intelligence: Focus on Data-Driven Decision Making

Read this detailed white paper to learn more about the four most popular Python libraries and get to know the basics on how to get started in web scraping.

Check out the essential technical insights outlined in this white paper and make the first step towards making your data collection activities easy and effortless.

An in-depth guide to cybersecurity companies that are looking to perform realistic load tests with the use of proxies.

Load Testing with Residential Proxies: Guide to Cybersecurity Companies

E-commerce companies employ dynamic pricing to maximize their revenue. What tools are the best for data acquisition for dynamic pricing? Let's figure it out in this white paper.

Guide to Dynamic Pricing and Data Acquisition

Find out how real estate market monitoring, e-commerce data, and monitoring employee changes can predict investment risks and opportunities.

Commercial Data as Alternative Data for Financial Industry

Download our extensive white paper and learn more on the application of AI and ML in large-scale data gathering operations.

The Application of AI and ML in Large-Scale Data Gathering Operations

Read why collecting alternative data is essential for financial markets. Find out the main challenges and how to address them effectively. 

Why Is Alternative Data Playing an Increasingly Larger Role in Financial Markets?

Learn what competitive intelligence is and how to solve the main issues that may arise when building a successful competitive intelligence process. Check out this white paper now.

How to Build a Successful Competitive Intelligence Process

Download this free white paper and get all the information on how you can benefit from web scraping in the travel industry.

Web Scraping in the Travel Industry: Main Challenges and Use Cases

Read our study on how alternative data is changing the finance industry and find out how companies are using it to generate alpha.

The Growing Importance of Alternative Data in the Finance Industry

Read our study on how web scraping and external data is becoming increasingly important for data-driven decision making.

The Growing Importance of External Data in the Retail and E-Commerce Industry

Learn about the key proxy types and how to choose one depending on your needs. Download this free white paper and get all the essential information before making a purchase decision.

Oxylabs & Censuswide surveyed 1000+ finance industry decision makers. Discover the results.

Alternative Data Unlocks Key Decisions in the UK And US Finance Industries

Go through the process of building a competitor intelligence system for e-commerce while taking an in-depth look at its architecture.

Building a Competitor Intelligence System for E-Commerce

Discover how your real estate business can benefit from web scraping and learn how to build your own property data monitoring architecture.

Developing a Real Estate Data Monitoring Infrastructure

Explore the benefits of web scraping for product listings and difference between developing an in-house scraper or opting for a third-party solution.

How to Achieve Cost-Effective and Scalable Web Scraping for Product Listings

Discover how proxies are involved in the email protection process and what type of proxies are the best for this purpose. 

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Proxies for Email Protection

An overview of self-managed proxies versus an all-in-one proxy solution for extracting data on a large scale from any website, even the most complex one.

Scalable Web Data Extraction With a Single Tool for Any Website

Download this free white paper and find out which proxies are the best for different cybersecurity use cases. 

Discover what brand protection is, the main challenges cybersecurity companies can face, and how to solve them by choosing reliable web scraping solutions.

The Ultimate Guide on Web Scraping for Brand Protection