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 ...

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

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect ...

The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

A band of 12 nations have issued a joint statement warning against the use of data scraping technologies to collect personal data from social media platforms and other online sites, which are required ...

“Matt Barrie, the chief executive of Freelancer.com accused the San Francisco-based company of being ‘the most aggressive scraper by far’ of his portal for freelancers, which has millions of daily ...

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

So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing startup called Calliope ...

In the world of research, a significant shift has occurred. Traditional ways of analyzing data, which usually take a while, are being complemented by real-time data analytics. This new method allows ...

Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data. The ...