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We are happy to announce that Decodo has finalized an agreement with Dataquake B.V., a Netherlands-based company, which has led to a full acquisition. 

Dataquake B.V. specializes in managing data acquisition and web intelligence solution businesses with vast experience in scaling medium-sized ventures to industry-leading organizations.

An Instagram profile scraper allows you to gather public Instagram profile data. Instead of building a scraper yourself, use our Social Media Scraping API. In this blog post, you’ll get Python code samples for real-time and on-demand data collection at a 100% success rate. Avoid blocks and errors and scrape with a shielded IP – check out this game-changing scraping tool and follow our step-by-step guide on how to set it up!

The American company Amazon and its founder (the second richest and possibly the first most disliked person in the world) don’t need long introductions. Today Amazon is a giant in e-commerce, cloud storage, digital streaming, artificial intelligence, logistics, etc.

We’ll focus on the e-commerce side of Amazon. Simply put, it’s the world’s leading online retailer. According to certain statistics, 90% of shoppers compare the price and quality of a product on Amazon even if they find it on another website. So if you’re a seller, you’ll be interested in following the trends on Amazon to be able to adapt to the market.

In this article, we’ll go over the benefits of scraping Amazon and how to do it right.

Social media scraping can look like a tough nut to crack due to strong anti-bot systems. Gladly, it’s not a rule, at least in Telegram’s case. This platform supports various Telegram bot automation, making the scraping process easier. 

There’re a lot of ready-built solutions for that, but you can easily make one yourself with a bit of coding and the Telegram API. Yes, this platform even has its own API! Dope, innit?

Anonymous proxies allow you to browse the internet without revealing your original IP address. They can offer you more – find out what in this article.

Anonymous proxies, sometimes called anonymizers, do not disclose your personal information to your target websites, including your IP address and location.

While connecting through a proxy server, they act like a privacy shield making your browsing on the internet hard to trace. Residential proxies take this a step further by routing traffic through real devices, making detection even more difficult.

A widely available internet leaves the door open for people to find information about everything. For example, everyone can check a business's online presence before trusting it. So, everything that could be found online about your brand helps your potential audience evaluate if you’re legit.

Statistics only prove that – 9 out of 10 online shoppers admit that reviews influence their buying decisions. It stands to reason – checking unbiased opinions helps avoid low-value products and potential scams. And who wants that? So, for businesses analyzing their customers’ reviews becomes a not-to-miss-out factor.

However, reviews are just one part of the game. Brand reputation management consists of various elements that form the customers' perception of the company. If it’s still a gray area for you, this blog post could be your starting point. 

Time to pop the champagne – once again, we’ve been recognized as the best value provider at the one and only Proxy Service Awards! Proxyway’s research showed that Decodo provides the best overall user experience.

If you’re not living in the medieval ages, you’ve heard of TikTok at least a couple of times. But if you are, let me help you – TikTok is a social media app to create, share, and discover short videos. Currently, the platform is on top: it has around 1 billion active users globally (still growing!) and is used by various companies and creators for marketing purposes.

Unfortunately, TikTok has some limitations that may affect your experience. To use the app to the fullest, you may need some help from proxies. So, sit down, take your notebook and get ready for the lesson on how to conquer TikTok with proxies.

Data is the new oil, which helps drive businesses and make better-informed decisions. For a long time, companies relied on traditional data (usually gathered internally or from official sources) to predict overall market trends, analyze competitors, and understand customer behavior. 

However, alternative data has become the new cool, which can aid almost any business, investors, financial institutions, or just simple people like you and me. And with proper proxies, gathering such data is a piece of cake. 

Keepin’ it short and sweet: data parsing is a process of computer software converting unstructured and often unreadable data into structured and readable format. Parsing offers a lot of benefits, some of which include work optimization, saving time, reducing costs, and many more; in addition, you can use parsed data in plenty of different situations.

Even tho that sounds epic, parsing itself can be quite complicated. But hold on, buddy, and get ready to explore a step-by-step process on how to parse HTML and XML documents using lxml.

Google has become a gateway to easily-accessible information. And one of the best ways to make use of Google’s limitless knowledge is data scraping. We’ve just released a detailed blog post about scraping Google SERPs with Python, where we cover lots of useful info, including the technical part. So before you dive into this tutorial – check it out.

But what if Python is not exactly your forte? This blog post will show you how to scrape SERPs using a simpler method. One that doesn't require much tech knowledge or downloading loads of applications and software. So, what do you know about web scraping with cURL and Terminal?

If you're fresh-new to data scraping, you may not be familiar with selectors yet. Let us introduce ya – selectors are objects that find and return web items on a page. These pieces are an essential part of a scraper, as they affect your tests' outcome, efficiency, and speed.

Yep, understanding the idea of a selector isn't that complicated. Finding the right selector itself might be. To be honest, even the two languages that define them, XPath and CSS, have their own pros and cons. So it can quickly become a headache to choose one of them. But here's some good news – we're here to help! Let's explore it together.

Let’s face it. No one wants to camp near shops or spend hours driving from one store to another just to find that specific item. It simply doesn't fit the pace of everyday life. We all want faster, more convenient shopping. 

And here shopping bots enter the scene. Just imagine — there’s something you absolutely need to buy. All you have to do is open up a social media platform (and who doesn’t have their phone nearby when they’re chilling at home, anyway) and simply have a conversation with a shopping bot that does all the shopping for you. Dope, right?

In this blog post, we’re going to talk about what are shopping bots, their types, and benefits. We’ll also go through some of the most popular ones so stay tuned!

Businesses collect scads of data for a variety of reasons: email address gathering, competitor analysis, social media management – you name it. Scraping the web using Python libraries like Scrapy, Requests, and Selenium or, occasionally, the Node.js Puppeteer library has become the norm.

But what do you do when you bump into the iron shield of anti-scraping tools while gathering data with Python or Node.js? If not too many ideas flash across your mind, this article is literally your stairway to heaven cause we’re about to learn the most common anti-scraping techniques and how to combat them.

Okay, let’s get it straight. Data is an awesome resource for analyzing and storing records, trends, and other information. But you can make rational decisions based on this information only if it’s shown clearly. That’s why we need parsing, a method to structure raw information. Parsing allows you to save time and increase productivity by converting massive amounts of data into neat and organized formats. Only then will we get the most important bits of that data. 

If you’ve found this blog post, chances are you probably have some idea of what data parsing is or at least have heard of it. So if you’re now looking for more information on what parsing can do and how to acquire parsing software, you’re in the right place. 

Data parsing is the process of converting raw, unstructured data into well-structured and understandable information. In this article, we’ll explore what data parsing is, how it works, and the various parsing technologies that unlock a range of features to both businesses and individuals.

Have you ever noticed how certain people consistently collect online votes for Facebook competitions, YouTube videos, online lotteries, and contests? These individuals always seem to gather the most likes, shares, and retweets, but what is their approach? The short answer is a vote bot paired with a proxy network. The reality, however, is more nuanced than simply running a basic automated script, so let's take a closer look.

Cybersecurity is a prominent concern for any business. The range and sophistication of threats facing the modern business is growing by day. Unless appropriate steps are taken to put defenses in place against future attacks, and to respond to current threats as they are detected, businesses will remain vulnerable to external intrusions.