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. Thus ...

"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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation urged AI companies, developers and large-scale users to stop scraping Wikipedia’s web pages en-masse ...

The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.

As a reporter who can code, I can easily collect information from websites and social media accounts to find stories. All I need to do is write a few lines of code that go into the ether, open up ...

In research, time and resources are precious. Automating common tasks, such as data collection, can make a project efficient and repeatable, leading in turn to increased productivity and output. You ...

In a case involving LinkedIn, a US appellate court has come to an obvious conclusion: scraping publicly-visible online data and content doesn't violate The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. What does it ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig’s global team of web crawling experts with in-depth domain expertise has a proven track record of identifying and implementing web analytics best practices to create ...