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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10 Best Google Maps Scrapers for Local Business Data
Google Places API is the official starting point, while dedicated services support different export and automation needs. This guide also separates Maps data from broader local-web research.
How to Build an Ecommerce Scraper: A Step-by-Step Guide
A maintainable ecommerce scraper separates discovery, acquisition, extraction, validation, and storage. This tutorial implements five methods and a common product schema.
How Amazon Proxies Help Scrapers and Analysts Collect Reliable Data
An Amazon proxy is a routing layer, not permission or a product parser. This guide explains ten practical benefits and limits for controlled, authorized retail research.
How to Use Web Data for a Stronger Ecommerce Holiday Season-2026
Holiday web data creates value only when observations route to defined pricing, inventory, promotion, or content decisions. This guide builds that operating loop from product registry to review.
LangChain SERP Scraping: A Reliable Production Workflow
LangChain should orchestrate search discovery and page retrieval as separate stages. This tutorial shows a reliable, observable pipeline with clear failure states.
CrawlBench LLM Extraction: Benchmarking Web Agents
LLM-CrawlBench tests web agents under adversarial page conditions. Production teams should reproduce relevant tasks and add provenance, cost, and holdout evaluation.
UK Residential Proxies for Web Scraping: A Practical Selection Guide
A UK residential proxy should be selected around the site journey, not a generic “best proxy” label. This guide maps UK web-scraping scenarios to rotation, session persistence, observability, and lawful data-use requirements.
PerimeterX / HUMAN Detection: Authorized Testing Guide
A safe playbook for resolving HUMAN or PerimeterX false positives through correlated logs, stable automation, and explicit access routes.
Go Web Scraping With Proxies and Colly
A practical Colly proxy tutorial covering RoundRobinProxySwitcher, bounded concurrency, sticky sessions, and observable failures.
