Sometimes data you want is available on a Web page, but not in form you can easily download. That’s where Web-scraping comes in. Most general-purpose computer languages have a library for easily ...

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites, allowing organizations to gather large amounts of information from the web. This information allows ...

AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

The difference between professional “web scraping” and conducting a Google search is the difference between a photo exhibit in an art museum and all of the photos stored on all of the world’s iPhones ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...