Special Giveaway: $50 Credit for Zyte API to Enhance Your Web Scraping
Hello Data Lovers,
I recently spoke at GDG Noida - The Joint Data Science Meet-up where I got to speak about?
During my talk I got to run a quick poll around “the use of web scraping for your Machine Learning projects”. The results - only 2 out of 100 people raised their hands. Unfortunately this didn’t surprise me and confirmed my hypothesis that the Data Collection Phase is the most underrated step of the entire Data Pipeline.?
In this issue I’d like to share with you some insights from my talk and highlight why this important step for any data project should get the attention it deserves.?
1. The Chef's Approach to Data Preparation: Quality Ingredients, Quality Results.?
2. Sample application-Purchase Pal, a friend to help you in making buying decisions.
3. ?? Special Giveaway: $50 Credit for Zyte API to Boost Your Web Scraping Capabilities! (10x our normal free credit) ??
4. Extensive Review of Zyte API against the major anti-bot solutions by Web Scraping Club.?
?Enjoy the read, see you next week :)
The Chef's Approach to Data Collection: Quality Ingredients, Quality Results.
Anyone who even briefly knows about Data Science projects knows a simple rule- The inferences derived from a Machine Learning model are only as good as the data your model has been trained on. Yet we seldom question the very foundation of every Machine Learning project- The Quality of Data going in our Data Pipeline.?
?Now, you may argue-Well, we clean it, prepare it! To that I would ask, will you cook the curry for your dinner with the ones chosen from a lot of rotten tomatoes? "Cleaning and preparing the **randomly collected data** is like cooking with ingredients that have already gone bad." Just like cooking with bad ingredients can ruin the taste of the final dish, using poor-quality data can lead to inaccurate and unreliable results. Therefore, it's essential to focus on the data collection phase and ensure that the data being used for training the models is of high quality to ensure the best possible outcomes.
I recently spend some time with Eric P. , Senior Director - Data Science at LexisNexis?in my webinar series, discussing how important this phase has been for their data collection strategy and how it has ultimately saved them a significant amount of time and effort in the data preparation stage. Check out the webinar on demand - how to start a large scale a web scraping project.
PurchasePal- Should I buy this product or not?
As a part of this talk, we also created a sample app: PurchasePal, and it's not related to Paypal at all. PurchasePal helps you make informed buying decisions. It uses the Zyte API to scrape Notion reviews from Product Hunt , and then ChatGPT summarises the reviews and creates a word cloud to highlight the most common feedback. This way, you can quickly get an idea of whether or not a product is worth buying. It's user-friendly and a great tool to have when making purchasing decisions! Give it a try.
Here is the code for the sample app for you to play with it :)
?? Special Giveaway: $50 Credit for Zyte API to Boost Your Web Scraping Capabilities! (10x our normal free credit) ??
What is it:?We are excited to invite you to participate in our user-ability test for Zyte API signup. As we continue to improve our platform, we want to hear from you, you smart developers, on your honest opinions and feedback on our new UI.?
How to participate: Participating in this giveaway is super easy and straightforward. All you need to do is book your call now- here is the Calendly link, and we'll guide you through the process. During the call, we'll walk you through our new UI design and gather your honest feedback.
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Get $50 Preloaded Scraping Credit for Your Feedback: As a thank you for your participation, we'll give you an account preloaded with $50 of scraping credit.
?Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to experience the full potential of our API and help us improve our platform. Book your call now- here is the?Calendly link. and join us in shaping the future of Zyte API!?
We are bringing together the global leaders of the web scraping and data extraction industry at the Extract Summit 2023.
Have a great topic??Apply to speak?Here! If you are doubtful about an idea and need someone to brainstorm with. Remember I am just a?message away?:)
?Watch the previous year talks,?here.?
If you're new to the world of enterprise web scraping solutions,I recommend reading this starter blog or watching this informative webinar. These resources will help you understand the challenges and best practices of a large-scale web scraping project.
I know I’m bias but it was great to see in a recent independent non-paid for review of? Zyte API that I’m not alone in believing it is the ultimate solution for all your web scraping needs. Whether you're a small business or a large enterprise, we have the tools and expertise to help you extract data quickly and efficiently.
But don't just take my word for it! Check out this extensive review of Zyte API by Pierluigi Vinciguerra, an industry expert with over 12 years of experience in web scraping and the author of The Web Scraping Club.
?In the latest post of The Web Scraping Club, Pierluigi tested the new Zyte API against the major anti-bot solutions. The testing methodology included using a Scrapy spider to retrieve 10 pages from 5 different websites, assigning a score from 0 to 100, and setting up the scraper.
Test Results:
The final result was a stunning 100% success rate for all websites, making it an effective solution against anti-bot. The integration with Scrapy was found to be straightforward, and the user has the option to activate or not the browser rendering, making it more affordable on larger volumes.
You can find the link to the full article, here.
Written by-
Neha . , Developer Advocate & Web Data Evangelist, Zyte. She is a storyteller and loves to weave stories to explain tech concepts in a funny yet relatable way. Want to know how baking cakes and web data acquisition is similar? Feel free to message her.?