Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs ...

DIY web scraping is especially attractive to organizations rich in technical talent and with specific needs. It gives a company complete control in creating custom scrapers for particular needs.

Web scraping is usually only a first step towards extracting meaningful data. Once you’ve got everything pulled down, you’ve still got to process it into something useful. Here to assis… ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said ...

Amazon Web Services Investigates Scraping Practices of Perplexity AI A spokesperson from Amazon Web Services confirmed to WIRED the ongoing investigation into Perplexity AI. Previous reports ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

02 June 2025 Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic ...

Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data ...

June 25 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N) said on Tuesday it will update a web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports ...