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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Why We Became Nstdata: From Proxies to Data Infrastructure
Nstdata now connects three layers of web data work: proxy access, structured extraction, and traffic control. This article explains what changed, what existing customers retain, and how teams can decide which layer to adopt next.
How to Avoid Getting Blocked While Web Scraping 2026
Learn ten practical ways to reduce scraping blocks with authorization, rate limits, caching, backoff, validation, and safer proxy use.
Playwright Proxy Rotation: Authentication and Contexts
Learn where Playwright accepts proxy settings, how authentication works, and how to rotate routes by browser context while keeping session boundaries clear.
6 Best Firecrawl Alternatives in 2026 (Compared)
Compare six Firecrawl alternatives across operating model, billing, proxy responsibility, crawl controls, and output fit for AI, RAG, and production web collection.
How to Scrape Dynamic Websites With a Headless Browser
Dynamic scraping fails when extraction runs before the application's real completion condition. This guide builds a tested Playwright workflow and covers pagination, validation, browser cost, and managed crawling alternatives.
Best Deep Research APIs for AI Agents in 2026: Selected by Use Case
Deep research products do not all solve the same layer. This guide separates controlled web acquisition from autonomous synthesis and selects five options by production use case.
Reduce Website Tracking With Browser and Network Controls
Website tracking uses cookies, scripts, redirects, fingerprints, accounts, and network identifiers. This guide applies the highest-value browser controls first and explains how to handle breakage with narrow exceptions.
Clean LTE Proxy Setup for Windows and Mac-Stepwise Guide
This tutorial starts with the live endpoint details available inside a Clean LTE account and avoids inventing undocumented dashboard paths. It covers Firefox, Windows, macOS, verification, and common failures.
7 Best Web Scraping Tools for Every Collection Layer
Scraping tools occupy different layers, so direct feature counts mislead. This guide compares seven options by rendering, discovery, output, operating ownership, and failure visibility.
