In February, the online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly three million photographs of different species, started to receive millions of hits to its website every day — a much ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has introduced a powerful web scraper named “Bytespider.” Launched in April, Bytespider is recognized as one of the most aggressive data collectors online, ...

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...