PyData Prague #32 - Scrapeyard Forge

Hello data speakers and crawling Pythons!

The 32nd Prague PyData meetup will be hosted at Apify offices right in the heart of Prague's city center. The talks will start at 18:30 and we encourage you to come as soon as 18:00 to enjoy the opportunity to socialise and refresh yourselves (which you can continue doing during the break and after the talks).

By attending, you agree that you will abide by the relevant parts of Apify Event Terms and Conditions and that you will provide your true identity for registration at the venue entrance.

🤗 Our main goal is to build the community around Python and data and make it welcoming to people of various skills and experience levels.

⚡ If you are interested in giving a lightning talk (up to 5 minutes to present an idea, tool or results related at least to some degree to Python and/or data), please contact us before or during the event.

📢 Jan Kislinger: Forged in Rust, Spoken in Python

Python has long been the go-to language for data science and rapid experimentation, but when our models and algorithms start to hit performance limits, we naturally look toward something closer to the metal. In recent years, Rust has become a powerful partner: a language that offers high speed, strong safety guarantees, and a surprisingly pleasant developer experience. With tools like pyo3 and maturin, we can implement performance-critical components in Rust while keeping the flexible, expressive Python interface we love. This talk explores how the evolving Python–Rust ecosystem is gently reshaping the balance between productivity and performance. What new capabilities do we unlock by going lower level, and what, if anything, do we leave behind?

📢 Vladimír Dušek: Dealing with today's web scraping challenges in Python

Web data powers today's AI revolution, but accessing it is becoming increasingly complex as websites grow more sophisticated. Modern web scraping and automation face challenges such as IP and geographical blocking, JavaScript-based content rendering, device and browser fingerprinting, CAPTCHAs, anti-scraping HTTP headers, and more.

In this talk, you'll learn how to beat these challenges using Crawlee—a modern open-source Python library for web scraping and automation that we built from scratch at Apify.

Refreshments will be available, thanks to our generous sponsors at Apify.

Please, RSVP here.
See you soon,
PyData Prague team