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 ...

Modern scraping APIs pair AI-generated parsers with layered browsing modes. Many APIs offer request, JS-rendered, anti-bot ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

When Resultly’s bots started scraping QVC’s website, the retail giant felt the pain immediately. Server crashes, website ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

The company also shared details of the top bots attempting to scrape data, which includes bots allegedly managed by ByteDance, Amazon, Anthropic and OpenAI. As bots continue to scrape the internet to ...

People who publish digital content and those who scrape it from the web don't always see eye to eye these days, to put it ...

The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

Reworkd’s founders went viral on GitHub last year with AgentGPT, a free tool to build AI agents that acquired more than 100,000 daily users in a week. This earned them a spot in Y Combinator’s summer ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...