Exploring the Frontier of AI Scraping: A Fireside Chat with Zyte's Tech Leaders- Kevin Magee and Konstantin Lopukhin

Hello Web Data Enthusiasts 

 Welcome to this week's Issue, the highlight of this week was the fireside chat between Kevin Magee, CTO Zyte and Konstantin Lopukhin, Head of Data Science,

Zyte where they talked about Why Zyte API came into existence and how it is supporting us in fulfilling our mission and vision to reduce the complexity and challenges in large-scale web data extraction projects. In this issue, I have shared some of the best blogs I have come across related to web scraping. It would be worth reading them. We have exciting events coming up, don't forget to add them to your calendar.

Enjoy this short power-packed knowledge newsletter from us :) 

1. A Quick Recap- Exploring the Frontier of AI Scraping: A Fireside Chat with Zyte's Tech Leaders- Kevin Magee and Konstantin Lopukhin"

2. Blogs worth reading :)

3. Upcoming Events.

Join the discord and share your experience with web scraping projects:)

Webinar Recap

A Quick Recap- Exploring the Frontier of AI Scraping: A Fireside Chat with Zyte's Tech Leaders- Kevin Magee and Konstantin Lopukhin

In this illuminating fireside chat, Kevin and Konstantin explore cutting-edge data extraction technology, spotlighting the advanced AI scraping features offered by Zyte API. They discuss the accuracy of present extraction models, and the debut of raw HTML extraction capabilities, and look forward to the revolutionary AI Scraping feature. Additionally, our technology leaders delve into strategies for improving the data re-training process through the use of annotation tools, highlight the support for a diverse range of data types, and discuss the advantages of utilizing Zyte to provide high-quality training data for AI and ML algorithms.

Here's a conversation between one of the community members @pdina and @konstantinlopukhin on the possibility of implementing custom extraction types. 

Watch the recording

Ask your queries to Konstantin

Blogs worth reading :)

1. Create a web scraping pipeline with Python using data contracts.

2. How to Scrape Modern Websites Without Headless Browsers      Using Python and common sense

3. The Sweet Promise of AI-Driven Web Scraping.

4. Detailed Tutorial on Page Objects for Web Data Extraction using Web Poet.

Join the Show-and-tell channel and share the interesting blogs

Upcoming Events

Creating browser automation scripts with Zyte IDE | Paweł Miech

Learn to automate Zyte web browser tasks efficiently in this workshop. Participants will delve into the functionalities of Zyte IDE, learning how to create a browser script, run it, and see a live view of website rendering using the interface of Chrome dev tools built into IDE. The workshop will include hands-on exercises and a demo of functionalities based on real-life crawling scenarios.

Date: 05 March 2024

Time: 4 pm GMT| 5 pm CET

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Page Objects for Web Data Extraction | Umair Ahmed

This talk will explore the adaptation of Martin Fowler's Page Objects concept, originally devised for testing web pages, for web scraping, as innovated by Zyte. It will discuss how Page Objects can revolutionize web scraping by making scrapers pluggable, portable, and reusable. The introduction of Zyte's open-source Python package, web-poet, will be discussed, showcasing its application in creating Page Objects for web data extraction, and its compatibility with various projects, especially through its APIs. The talk will conclude with practical examples of integrating the web-poet package with Scrapy, leveraging the scrapy-poet package to apply Page Objects in the Scrapy framework, and demonstrating the technique's effectiveness and efficiency in modern web scraping projects.

Date: 13 March 2024

Time: 4 pm GMT| 5 pm CET

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Until next time

Neha .