Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

AI bots are taking a toll on Wikipedia's bandwidth, but the Wikimedia Foundation has rolled out a potential solution. Bots often cause more trouble than the average human user, as they are more likely ...

As one of the most popular, versatile, and beginner-friendly programming languages, Python can be used for a variety of tasks from analyzing data to building websites. This workshop explores how to ...

The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the bots don't scrape Wikipedia and stress its servers. AI bots are ...

Popular free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been struggling with AI bots in recent times, which scrape text and multimedia from the platform to train generative artificial intelligence models, ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

As large language models absorb Wikipedia’s content without attribution, the world’s free encyclopedia finds itself at the center of the AI information economy—struggling to keep control over the ...

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...