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

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it.

[1] Fare data has long been scraped by aggregators and specialized travel sites and has produced a fair share of screen scraping litigation (e.g., we last wrote about a dispute involving an ...

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites.

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.

Why Data Extraction Is Needed Because of the huge growth in the number of unstructured and semi-structured data, data extraction or scraping has become critical.

With the advent of scraping tools and services, such as those from Lithuania-based OxyLabs, it is now a relatively easy job, and there are companies emerging that specialize in helping businesses find ...

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 ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.