"Web scraping," also called crawling or spidering, is the automated gathering of data from someone else's website. Scraping is an essential part of how the Internet functions. For example, Google uses ...

I’ve waxed poetic about CloudFlare a few times in the past, and with good reason. The company, which focuses on securing websites while having a side-effect of making them insanely fast, has been hard ...

A Judge today ruled that an analytics company has the right to scrape data from LinkedIn (LI). HiQ, the data gatherer, has been processing publicly available data from LI and using it to train AI ...

Automated bots that collect content, product descriptions, pricing, inventory data, and other public-facing information from websites have a greater economic and performance impact than many ...

It turns out that a website called ' Triplegargs,' which sells 3D scans of human bodies, faces, hands, etc., was taken down by an OpenAI crawler bot. The bot was sending download requests for each of ...

For example, in Bidder's Edge, the court held that excessive scraping can support a claim for trespass to chattels if it taxes the plaintiff's computer system in such a way that would substantially ...

Many prominent news outlets and social media platforms have opted out of Apple’s AI training data collection via website scraping, according to a new report Thursday. Apple does it through a new tool ...

Data scraping is a technique in which automated tools-- robots or “bots”--are used to extract large quantities of data from a website. In some cases, the extracted data has been developed by the ...