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 ...

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.

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites.

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: ...

Is an AI Scraping Your Site Data? Not So Fast, Says Cloudflare AIs need vast amounts of content to train their algorithms, and some firms are pushing the edge of the law by scraping that data from ...

Among the privacy risks the regulators highlight is the use of data scraping for targeted cyberattacks such as social engineering and phishing; identity fraud; and for the monitoring, profiling ...

Data scraping of the internet for massive amounts of data could be described as generative AI's secret sauce. Experts say the current blowback is unsurprising.

Bright Data then sold the scraped data and developed and sold tools to help others scrape data and avoid detection. Bright Data argues its services allow customers to search for data that users choose ...

A band of nations including Australia, the UK, and Canada say social media platforms and websites that hold personal data are required to protect their users against illegal data scraping.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup dismissed X’s suit against data-scraping company Bright Data, saying that social media companies already have legal precedent to decide who can collect and use data ...