Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites. There are many applications for web scraping, including monitoring product retail prices, ...

Selling web users’ personal data is big business — with a projected worth of $400 billion by 2025. In industries as diverse as health insurance and automobile manufacturing, companies that collect and ...

For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

ByteDance looks like it's eager to make up for lost time when it comes to scraping the web for data needed to train its generative AI models. The China-based parent company of video app TikTok ...

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 ...

One critical challenge faced by web scrapers is the high prevalence of anti-scraping measures implemented by various websites. Now, many websites will block you for good reasons. Perhaps your IP ...

The amount of information on the Internet is only equaled by the number of rich resources in any field. As the size and complexity of data sets on the web have grown, collecting and storing this ...

E-commerce networks attract bad actors. Credit card details, passwords, financial and personal information are now regularly stored by third-party cloud providers. These cloud providers’ networks, ...