Hackaday Links: March 22, 2026

On Friday, Reuters reported that Amazon is going to try to get into the smartphone game…again. The Fire Phone was perhaps Amazon’s biggest commercial misstep, and was only on the market…

Hackaday

Engagements with data suppliers break down when buyers don’t have a clear project concept. Understanding and articulating your needs is paramount. Meet the three types of data buyers. Which one are you? https://www.zyte.com/blog/whats-your-data-type?utm_campaign=blog-2025-catchup&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

What’s your data type? Solving the procurement problem

Engagements with data suppliers break down when buyers don’t have a clear project concept. Understanding and articulating your needs is paramount. Meet the three types of data buyers. Which one are you?

Zyte

The story of Scrapy reflects the broader evolution of the web itself and the ongoing quest to harness its ever-expanding ocean of information. https://www.zyte.com/blog/the-rise-of-scrapy?utm_campaign=blog-2025-catchup&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

The rise of Scrapy: How an open-source scraping framework conquered the web

The story of Scrapy reflects the broader evolution of the web itself and the ongoing quest to harness its ever-expanding ocean of information.

Zyte
Data on command: The natural-language web scraping revolution

Unlock the future of web scraping with natural language—making data extraction faster, easier, and accessible to all.

Zyte

Don't just let your LLM browse the web – empower it with the knowledge it needs to truly understand and serve your business. https://www.zyte.com/blog/build-a-better-brain-get-ready-for-rag?utm_campaign=blog-2025-catchup&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

Build a better brain - get ready for RAG

Don't just let your LLM browse the web – empower it with the knowledge it needs to truly understand and serve your business.

Zyte

Build or buy?

Travel startups must choose between in-house data teams and managed scraping solutions. One offers control, the other speed & scalability — the right choice depends on your growth stage.

Read More: https://www.webscreenscraping.com/managed-scraping-vs-in-house-data-team-travel-startups.php

#TravelTech #WebScraping #StartupStrategy #CTO #BuildVsBuy

By leveraging the power of LLMs to reason about web page structures and data relationships, we can automate tasks that previously required significant human intervention. https://www.zyte.com/blog/the-rise-of-reasoning-llms?utm_campaign=blog-2025-catchup&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

The Fly, The Parrot & The Thinking Machine: The Rise of Reasoning LLMs

By leveraging the power of LLMs to reason about web page structures and data relationships, we can automate tasks that previously required significant human intervention.

Zyte

Scale data extraction with Zyte’s composite AI, combining accuracy, flexibility, and cost-efficiency in one powerful scraping solution, now available for the most common data types. https://www.zyte.com/blog/from-products-to-serps-new-ai-scraping-templates?utm_campaign=blog-2025-catchup&utm_activity=ORS&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#webscraping #webdata #data #web

From products to SERPs: AI scraping now does it all

Scale data extraction with Zyte’s composite AI, combining accuracy, flexibility, and cost-efficiency in one powerful scraping solution, now available for the most common data types.

Zyte
🤔 Ah, the noble pursuit of creating an #SDK that scrambles HTML like an egg to "outsmart" scrapers. Because nothing screams #innovation like making your website look like it went through a blender. 😅 Bravo for single-handedly advancing the art of content protection to new heights of absurdity! 🙌
https://www.obscrd.dev/ #ContentProtection #WebScraping #Absurdity #HackerNews #ngated
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