News Scraping Simplified
Stop fixing broken parsers and managing proxies. Distill monitors business news from thousands of sources, giving you a clean, deduplicated feed instantly.
Start for freeReplace manual data collection
Distill handles the technical infrastructure so you can focus on the insights.
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Select your targets
Search for the companies you want to track instead of building custom site scrapers. We monitor everything from local startups to global corporations.
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Set smart filters
Instead of writing complex scraping rules, select the topics you care about. Filter for funding rounds, product launches or key hires to avoid unrelated data.
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Receive clean data
Get notified immediately when news breaks. Choose between real-time email or Slack alerts, daily recaps, or weekly summaries of the biggest news.
Coverage you cannot easily scrape
Custom scrapers break when websites update. We maintain access to thousands of difficult-to-track sources so you do not have to.
Company websites and portals
We monitor official newsrooms, blogs, and press portals, handling dynamic content and changing site structures automatically.
Social feeds and walled gardens
Distill extracts data from hard-to-scrape platforms like LinkedIn and Medium, capturing business updates that block standard web scrapers.
Global media outlets
From major financial publications to regional newspapers. We aggregate the entire media landscape and automatically deduplicate syndicated stories.
Custom News Scraper vs. Distill
Why engineering and data teams switch from building scrapers to using Distill.
| Distill | Custom Scraper | |
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| Maintenance | Zero maintenance. We handle DOM changes, layout updates, and broken feeds. | High maintenance. Scripts break constantly when target websites update. |
| Access & Proxies | Managed infrastructure. No need to worry about IP bans or CAPTCHAs. | Requires managing rotating proxies and headless browsers to avoid getting blocked. |
| Data quality | Clean & summarized. AI groups duplicates and removes ads and navigation. | Raw HTML. Requires heavy post-processing to be readable. Full of duplicates. |
| Relevancy filtering | Entity-based tracking and built-in topic classification (e.g., Product, People). | Relies on basic keyword matching that often extracts irrelevant false positives. |
| Delivery and summaries | Native Slack integration, daily email recaps, and AI-generated weekly briefings. | Requires building custom pipelines to route and format the text. |
Turn raw web data into business intelligence
Stop sifting through endless spreadsheets of scraped links. Distill gives you the insights you actually need.
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Duplicate detection
We automatically group identical stories from different publications so you only read about an event once.
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Automated briefings
Stop parsing RSS feeds. We compile the last 24 hours of activity into clean daily email digests.
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Searchable intelligence
Access a central dashboard containing all historical data for your tracked companies, indexed and searchable.
Frequently asked questions
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Do I need to write code to use Distill?
No. Distill is a complete intelligence platform. You simply search for a company and we handle all the data collection and parsing behind the scenes.
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How does Distill handle blocked sites or CAPTCHAs?
We use enterprise-grade infrastructure to ensure consistent access to sources, so you never have to worry about managing proxies, IP bans, or solving CAPTCHAs.
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How does Distill handle duplicate news articles?
Our AI groups syndicated press releases and duplicate coverage into a single event, saving you the time of reading the same raw story multiple times.
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Does Distill offer a free trial?
Yes. You can try Distill for free for 14 days. No credit card is required to create an account and start tracking companies immediately.
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