Public web data is a valuable business commodity. You collect data on the internet that can give you an edge in a competitive market. Theoretically, you can collect anything from publicly available tweets, product reviews, photos, and competitor prices. Data collection is a significant challenge for small businesses that can't afford to hire a team.

Oxylabs, a premium web intelligence collection platform, has leveled the playing field with its newly launched AI assistant.

Businesses of all types need data to survive (and thrive) as competition for consumer time, attention, and dollars intensifies. For example, real estate agents need an extensive database of properties available for rent or sale. Many companies collect industry data to gain insight specific to that sector.

For instance, a consulting firm that sells insights to oil companies needs oil prices' import and export details. A business may need retail product pricing to offer uses of comparison data. The bottom line is that information collection about potential clients or competitors is the lifeblood of an organization.

The problem is that web data acquisition is a complex process that requires a lot of time and money. "In summer, together with Censuswide, we conducted a comprehensive survey of developers and web scraping practitioners in the UK and US. The data show that 74% of businesses faced an increasing demand for public web data over the last year.

Unfortunately, building the necessary infrastructure and maintaining data parsers remains a heavy challenge for many companies – a proper parsing process alone can take up to 40 development hours per week for the tech teams," says Julius Černiauskas, CEO at Oxylabs.

With that challenge in mind, Oxylabs set out to develop a solution to remove the roadblocks that make it difficult for businesses to scrape the web for data. His company created OxyCopilot, AI-driven software that helps companies collect the data they need easily.

OxyCopilot is designed to help users save time and money on complex web data acquisition tasks. The tool is built on a combination of AI and proprietary Oxylabs technology. The platform enables web scraping professionals and those with little experience in web data collection to generate instant parsing instructions and requests for the Web Scraper API.

Additionally, they can do this using nothing more than a URL and natural language prompts.

According to Černiauskas, the newly released AI assistant helps level the playing field. Previously, the barrier to entry for smaller companies was formidable. Typically, they had to hire a team of web scraping professionals. Unfortunately, it's hard to find those experts in today's market.

With the OxCopilot, businesses can now overcome that hurdle. Organizations can save development hours spent on repetitive web scraping tasks and devote more attention to data quality, analysis, and innovation.

Additionally, businesses using Oxylabs' unified web scraping platform can bypass maintaining costly infrastructure like servers. That's refreshing news, considering that 61% of professionals identify this problem as the most pressing when collecting data on a large scale.

Oxylabs has enabled companies of all sizes to utilize the power of big data. The company has been a web intelligent platform and premium proxy provider since 2015. It has emerged as a global leader in the web intelligence collection industry. The organization has also forged close ties with dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Companies such as Conductor, Trivago, and Wiser trust Oxylabs' data collection expertise.

The company has made an impact with its constant innovation, extensive patent portfolio, and focus on ethical practices. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, Oxylabs was named Europe's fastest-growing web intelligence acquisition company by the Financial Times' FT 1000 list.

OxyCopilot is the industry's first artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for scraping data. It is an integral part of Oxylabs Web Scraper AI, an all-in-one public web data collection platform.

"We always aspired to be industry leaders through innovation, and taking a step further in the field of AI was a natural business decision for us. OxyCopilot is unique in its design, and we are currently patenting technological implementations behind it. Most importantly, it functions as a part of a broader platform that includes other AI-powered solutions, from proxy management to web unblocking," says Černiauskas.

Public web data is like gold for businesses around the globe. However, gathering this information is too expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive for many companies. Oxylabs has introduced its new AI-driven web scraper, OxyCopilot, which saves businesses time and money. Companies can easily extract the needed data with a URL and natural language prompts.

Oxylabs holds over 100 patents globally, part of them covering technologies that have AI and ML implementations. In 2023, the company obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2017 standard for excellence in information security management. "With the help of AI machine learning (ML), we are moving towards automating the entire public web data collection process," concludes Černiauskas.

For more information, please visit: https://oxylabs.io/