AI is making web scraping faster - but dependable data takes more than working code. Quality, provenance, self-repair, access and responsibility are the new edge. https://zpr.io/9DiCmhcDsB4C
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@zytedata.bsky.socialAI is making web scraping faster - but dependable data takes more than working code. Quality, provenance, self-repair, access and responsibility are the new edge. https://zpr.io/9DiCmhcDsB4C
@zytedata.bsky.socialRate limiting sounds like a speed limit, but 93.7% of rate-limited sites block on the very first request. It is an identity check, not a throttle. https://zpr.io/jurkNnNDs3Bp
@cl0qsearch.bsky.socialFun fact from our crawl: blogspot.com alone holds 1M+ subdomains. Tumblr has 435k. A handful of platforms are the web's biggest landlords, and we map them all. Dig in at cl0q.com/explore #WebData #OpenWeb #SEO
@cl0qsearch.bsky.socialPlot twist: the 'whole web' is mostly thin pages. The median site cl0q indexes has 356 words and 8 outbound links. Our indie crawler (2GB droplet!) reads 39.6M domains so you can search substance, not SEO. cl0q.com/explore #indiesearch #webdata #opensource
@cl0qsearch.bsky.socialWhere does the web actually live? 58.6% of sites sit on US servers. Germany (6.2%), France (4.4%) trail far behind. 225 countries indexed - but CDN edges blur the real map. cl0q.com/explore #WebHosting #CDN #WebData
@cl0qsearch.bsky.socialOnly 0.3% of the web is throwing 5xx errors right now — 96.1% returns a clean 2xx. The web is healthier than outage headlines suggest. Measured across 26.2M pages: cl0q.com/explore #WebData #OpenWeb
@zytedata.bsky.socialZyte MCP brings live web access, structured extraction and Scrapy Cloud operations into coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. https://zpr.io/YLs6yVTJCttt
@zytedata.bsky.socialThe famously awkward security mechanism has quietly become an invisible behavioral scoring system. Two vendors enable 89% of CAPTCHAs, and the smallest sites use it most. https://zpr.io/aAVpk9hZpKwd
@zytedata.bsky.socialRecordings, slides, and a rundown of Zyte's second Developer Community Meetup with Humanbound: a live prompt injection attack on a price agent, Zyte CDP managed browsers, and the launch of harness-run. https://zpr.io/zg8qdFXDsiw5
@zytedata.bsky.socialScrapy MCP connects an AI agent to a running Scrapy crawl, using the new Remote Control extension in Scrapy 2.19 to let the agent discover jobs, check status and run Python against the live crawler, all without restarting it. https://zpr.io/cScekxFMMnAu
@zytedata.bsky.socialOne Scrapy spider, three browser setups: stock Playwright, Patchright via the new PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER_PROVIDER hook, and a remote browser on Zyte over CDP. Same spider and selectors throughout, only the browser changes. https://zpr.io/nWfXuqZ2K9gY
@zytedata.bsky.socialA Scrapy pipeline that asks a fast, calibrated AI model whether each scraped field still looks real, and stops the crawl when too many don't. What it caught, what it misses, and whether building it was worth it. https://zpr.io/JjiAT8ugEEaq
@zytedata.bsky.socialJev by TypeFace AI cannot generate a string, so it cannot extract a field. What it is, how it differs from an LLM, and the one job it earns in a scraping pipeline. https://zpr.io/FeWCw4Xaxp2j
@zytedata.bsky.socialOnly 18.5% of top sites run dedicated antibot, but every one of them chose to. Why it's the most intentional barrier in the stack, and the strongest signal of a hardened site. https://zpr.io/dhFHfPBHWLnt
@zytedata.bsky.socialWeb Application Firewalls run on 92.4% of the top websites, but most arrived bundled with a CDN and were never tuned to resist automated access. https://zpr.io/e54fc3KKT5wd
@zytedata.bsky.socialIt was just a silly game side project. But, as I grew my sim to 3,000 matches, I levelled up on edge routing, flattening memory spikes and hardcore monitoring. https://zpr.io/T864tGzLUrKi
@zytedata.bsky.socialReal web is becoming hostile for AI Agents. The page your agent scrapes now could be a potential attack surface. Read more and join Zyte's virtual meet-up to see it in action. https://zpr.io/fEfDdZgBsrQy
@zytedata.bsky.socialNearly four in 10 of the world's top sites are now closed to well-behaved AI crawlers. Here's what operators actually do with robots.txt, and which AI agents they block or welcome. https://zpr.io/dA2smAQZJpJj