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Decodo Web Scraping Webinar: Save Your Team’s Time and Costs

Does web scraping take too much of your and your team's time? Struggling to balance efficiency with cost-effectiveness? Well, we’ve got great news for all you tech enthusiasts! Decodo hosted an exclusive webinar: “Web Scraping Efficiently: Save Your Team’s Time and Costs”.

By registering via the link above, you can replay the webinar for free. From seamless tool integration to savvy scraping practices, join us and improve your team’s approach by boosting productivity and cutting costs.

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EWDCI Certified Designation: Embracing Ethical Web Data Collection Practices

At Decodo, our mission is to deliver value while upholding the principles of fairness, transparency, and industry's best practices. We’re dedicated to fostering a trust-based and sustainable industry where end-user awareness, consent, and equitable reward are the standard. That’s why we’re a co-founding member of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI), an international consortium of web data aggregation business leaders focused on encouraging dialogue and improving digital peace of mind for both consumers and companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our active participation in the EWDCI accreditation program, enabling us and other fellow eligible companies to receive the EWDCI Certified designation.

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We Released Site Unblocker!

Look no further, buddy. A powerful tool for gathering public data is already here. Say hi to our newly launched product – Site Unblocker!

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Decodo Webinar: Web Scraping: How to Successfully Collect Public Data in 2023

Wanna scrape web data but keep running into obstacles? Collecting web data in 2023 sure requires extensive knowledge. Websites are armed with smart antibots, few suspicious moves, and an IP ban is knocking on your door. That's why Decodo is hosting a free webinar filled with tips about successful scraping in 2023

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Decodo co-founds Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative For Trustworthy and Responsible Data Gathering

Web data aggregators (“web scraping”) gather available data from around the Internet; enabling consumer confidence, commercial innovation, and community safety. To drive further awareness of and public trust in this crucial digital ability, the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) has announced the launch of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI). This international, industry-led, and member-driven consortium of web data aggregation business leaders is focused on encouraging dialogue and improving digital peace of mind for consumers and companies.

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It’s Happening! The First Dedicated Social Media Scraping API in the Market

Folks, we have some exciting news for you today. We just released the first dedicated Social Media Scraping API in the market. Woot woot!

This all-in-one solution is designed to simplify real-time and on-demand data collection at scale. Yup, no worries about managing proxies, several scrapers, and parsers – we handle it all for you, so you can focus on the data insights you seek.

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Introducing Webhooks – Stay Updated with Real-Time Notifications

If you’ve ever tried our solutions, you know we love our users to infinity and beyond. And what could be a better way to show our love than introduce new features, making your proxying and scraping journey even easier?

So meet webhooks, convenient notifications that help you stay updated with your usage, subscriptions, and more. Whether at your desk or on the go, real-time notifications ensure you're always in the loop.

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Decodo has been acquired by Dataquake B.V.

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.

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Decodo Won the Best Value Provider Award for the Second Year in a Row

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.

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