Who is Zyte optimal for?
Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub, creators of the Scrapy framework) is a web scraping platform and cloud infrastructure for running large-scale Scrapy spiders. They offer managed crawling, proxy rotation, anti-bot bypassing, and data extraction capabilities. Zyte is the choice for data engineering teams that need a reliable, scalable infrastructure to build and run their own custom scrapers across any website.
Use it if:
- Your team already uses Scrapy and needs cloud infrastructure to scale and schedule your existing spiders.
- You need to scrape data types beyond job postings - e-commerce, real estate, news - on a shared infrastructure.
- Maximum control over the scraping logic, parsing rules, and update frequency is a hard requirement.
- You're solving a scraping problem that no existing data product covers - bespoke, niche sources.
- The platform cost is justified by the engineering productivity gains over self-hosted Scrapy.
When teams outgrow Zyte
For job posting data specifically, the build-vs-buy calculation strongly favours buying. The coverage breadth, historical depth, and ongoing maintenance required to replicate Techmap's data would consume months of engineering time - and never stop requiring it.
Typical challenges with Zyte for job data:
- Writing, testing, and maintaining Scrapy spiders for 125+ job source types across 250 countries is a multi-year engineering project.
- Job sites frequently update their HTML structure, breaking scrapers - ongoing maintenance is unavoidable.
- Anti-bot protections on major job sites (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor) require constant updates to bypass mechanisms.
- No pre-built historical archive - you only collect what you schedule, starting from today.
- Deduplication, normalisation, and enrichment of raw scraped data require significant additional engineering.
Techmap vs Zyte: Feature Comparison
| Feature | Techmap | Zyte |
|---|---|---|
| Product type | Managed data feed (buy) | Scraping platform (build) |
| Countries covered | 250 countries (ready now) (→ Explore) | Any (you build the scrapers) |
| Historical data | 405M+ from January 2020 | None pre-built (scrape forward only) |
| Data quality | Structured, normalised, enriched | Raw - DIY normalisation required |
| Data formats | JSON, CSV, XML, RSS/ATOM, Parquet | Whatever your scraper outputs |
| Delivery options | API, AWS S3, AWS Data Exchange | S3, Scrapy Cloud, custom |
| Time to first data | Minutes (self-serve) | Weeks–months (scraper development) |
| Maintenance burden | None (managed by Techmap) | High (scrapers break when sites change) |
| GDPR compliant | Yes (EU-based storage) | Depends on your implementation |
Reasons to Choose Techmap's Job Data
When the target is job posting data specifically - not general-purpose scraping - Techmap is the clear "buy" choice. We deliver clean, structured, global job data at a lower total cost, with a free tier and historical archive already built.
Why teams choose Techmap:
- Zero to data in minutes: Free tier on RapidAPI - your first API call takes seconds, not months of development.
- Lower total cost: No scraping platform fee, no engineering team maintaining spiders - just a predictable data subscription.
- Historical archive already built: 405M+ postings from January 2020 - immediately available for download.
- Zero maintenance: Techmap's team handles source changes and data quality - freeing your engineers for higher-value work.
- 250 countries pre-covered: Global reach from day one.
- GDPR-compliant by default: Full compliance documentation included.
- Startup and volume discounts: Volume discounts and Startup rates are available.
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