Lena Zhou
Growth & Integration Specialist
Lena Zhou is a Growth & Integration Specialist at Nstdata, focused on helping businesses leverage proxy technology for scalable data collection, automation, and global operations. With experience in product adoption, platform integrations, and growth strategies, she shares practical insights on proxy use cases, market intelligence, web scraping workflows, and digital expansion.
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Hermes Agent: What It Is & How to Use It with Nstdata Crawl
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source, self-hosted AI agent. Here's what it does, where its built-in web tools hit real limits, and how to give it JS-rendering, proxy-backed page access with a short Nstdata Crawl plugin.
6 Best MCP Servers for Cursor in 2026
A decision-focused comparison of GitHub, Context7, Playwright, Firecrawl, and a controlled Crawl-backed MCP pattern for Cursor.
How to Use a Proxy with BeautifulSoup in 2026
Use a BeautifulSoup proxy correctly through Python Requests with tested examples for authentication, session rotation, validation, and common fixes.
How to Code a Proxy in Python: A Safe HTTP Tutorial
Build and test a bounded Python HTTP proxy, understand its security limits, and decide when to use managed proxy infrastructure.
Python Web Scraping Project: Build a Reliable Pipeline
This end-to-end project fetches a purpose-built public catalog page, parses and validates book records, and upserts them into SQLite with stable IDs. It also covers retries, failure handling, testing, managed crawling, and responsible use.
The Ultimate Guide to Scrape Amazon Data in 2026
A step-by-step 2026 guide to scraping Amazon product data -- prices, ratings, ASINs, and search results -- with real code, a legal/responsible-use overview covering Amazon's deprecated Product Advertising API, and a Bonus Tip for turning a one-off scrape into an always-on price tracker with Nstdata Crawl and Proxy Manager.
Claude Code vs Codex: Which AI Coding Agent Fits Your Team?
Claude Code and Codex both turn a chat model into a coding agent, but they ship from different platforms with different sandboxing, pricing, and extension models. This guide compares surfaces, cost, and use cases, then gives a decision framework for picking one.
Best 10 Open Source Web Crawler in 2026 [Don't Miss]
This guide ranks ten true crawling systems using the fields that change a production decision. It separates crawler frameworks from browser drivers and shows when a managed crawl service is the more practical choice.
Best Web Search API Review for AI: 2026 Updated
This review compares six Web search and retrieval APIs using the fields that change a production decision. It separates open-Web discovery from rendered content retrieval and shows where each provider fits in an AI stack.
