Auritus: Open-Source, Public Relations Monitoring Platform

Auritus: Open-Source, Public Relations Monitoring Platform

The reason I started Webz.io is because I experienced the difficulties in collecting web data at scale when I worked on a previous project named PRTrack.it. At PRTrack.it we wanted to create…

Webz.io 2018 Year in Review

Webz.io 2018 Year in Review

The Year in Review at Webz What a year we’ve had at Webz! With your ongoing feedback we’ve been able to develop offerings that better serve you. As we stop to catch…

Track Your News with RSS Instead of Social Media

Track Your News with RSS Instead of Social Media

One of the first popular sites to ever offer RSS, Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication) was the New York Times in early 2002. These feeds brought the advantage of learning…

Meet the Online News Archive: Time for Some Historical Perspective

Meet the Online News Archive: Time for Some Historical Perspective

Whether you’re in the world of financial analysis and modeling, AI modeling or market research, historical news web data can really change the game. Learn how.

Richer Media Analysis with Broadcast News Transcripts

Richer Media Analysis with Broadcast News Transcripts

Learn how to use broadcast news transcript to enrich your media analysis.

Quick Guide to News APIs

Quick Guide to News APIs

All you need to know about News APIs.

Can Data Science Deliver a Fake News Detector?

Can Data Science Deliver a Fake News Detector?

Regardless of your political opinion, fake news has dominated the conversation since the 2016 US presidential election. The crux of the problem is that the very definition of what qualifies as fake…

Top 10 Big Data Stories Leading the Conversation

Top 10 Big Data Stories Leading the Conversation

In the right hands, crawled web data can tell an amazing story. We were interested in the top 10 news stories – sorted by social shares on Facebook and LinkedIn. So we set up a…

100% Coverage of the Web

100% Coverage of the Web

Achieving 100% coverage is the Holy Grail. To be able to tap into the World Wide Web is something that anyone dealing with data would like to have, but is far FAR…

Five Reasons a News Crawler Is Essential to Your Business

Five Reasons a News Crawler Is Essential to Your Business

“Originality is the art of remembering something but forgetting where you heard it.” Case in point, especially when it comes to running an online business. Why? Because in today’s online marketplace, sales,…

30-Days of Historical Data Access for Webz.io Now Available

30-Days of Historical Data Access for Webz.io Now Available

I’m very happy to let you know about the launch of our extended access to 30-days of historical data from Webz.io, which is available to our paying customers immediately. No waiting list….

Webz.io Tip: Search for top performing (viral) posts

Webz.io Tip: Search for top performing (viral) posts

Here at Webz, our crawlers download millions of posts a day from millions of sources. When searching for web data among these many sources, you may want to limit your results to…