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 ...

Scraping at scale is less about brute force and more about engineering to the web you actually face: dynamic, encrypted, template-driven, and chatty. If your design reflects those realities, ...

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 ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

Across Europe, employees are facing growing pressure to demonstrate to senior leadership that they can master the latest ...

The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

“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 ...

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 ...

Meta is asking the High Court to quash a decision of Ireland’s data-protection watchdog to fine it €265 million for an alleged breach of EU privacy rules regarding the personal information of about ...