Ivy Lin
Community & Content Lead
Ivy Lin leads community engagement and content strategy at Nstdata. She works closely with developers, marketers, and data professionals to create educational resources that simplify complex proxy and data collection concepts. Her writing covers industry trends, best practices, product guides, and real-world applications of proxy technology across different industries.
All Articles
What Is Node.js Proxy & How to Use Proxy Servers in Node.js
Learn what a Node.js proxy is and how to route http, https, Axios, node-fetch, and undici/fetch requests through a proxy with working code examples.
Best AI Web Scraping Tools in 2026: Definition & Usage
AI web scrapers use vision-language or LLM models to read pages instead of brittle selectors. See how Firecrawl, ScrapeGraphAI, Browse AI, Diffbot, and Nstdata Crawl compare in 2026.
Agent Tools Explained: Types, Design, and Safe Use in 2026
Agent tools give AI systems controlled access to retrieval, computation, files, browsers, and business applications. This guide explains tool architecture, MCP, schema design, permissions, security controls, and task-level evaluation.
Best OpenClaw Skills in 2026: How to Choose and Use Them
A researched guide to the OpenClaw skills ecosystem in 2026 — what skills are, the best ones to know across browser automation, research, sales, and communication, how to vet them for security, and how to build a custom skill backed by Nstdata Crawl for reliable web retrieval at scale.
What Are News APIs? The Best News APIs in 2026
What is a news API, and which one is best in 2026? A ranked, evidence-checked comparison of NewsAPI.org, GNews, NewsData.io, Mediastack, the Guardian Open Platform, the NYT API, GDELT, and WorldNewsAPI -- plus how a general-purpose crawling API like Nstdata Crawl fills the gaps none of them cover.
Top 10 Open-Source RAG Frameworks in 2026 [Don't Miss]
Compare the best open source RAG frameworks for 2026, including LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, RAGFlow, Dify, and specialized tools for graph and local RAG.
Best Proxy for Spotify in 2026: 5 Providers Ranked and Compared
A first-party-verified comparison of five proxy providers for Spotify (Nstdata, Webshare, Decodo, IPRoyal, SOAX) covering pricing, IP pools, protocol support, bandwidth budgeting, desktop/mobile setup, and Spotify's own ToS rules.
9 Best Claude Code Plugins in 2026 (Plus a Bonus Tip)
Claude Code's public plugin catalog lists 200+ options, but real install data shows a much smaller set actually driving adoption. This guide ranks the 9 worth installing by verified install counts and Anthropic's own curation status, plus a bonus tip on filling the one gap the catalog doesn't cover: live web-data access.
Best Browser Automation Tools in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
A practical, sourced comparison of browser automation tools -- Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, Cypress, Browserbase, Axiom AI, and Nstdata Crawl -- plus why they get blocked at scale and what actually fixes it.
