For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites. There are many applications for web scraping, including monitoring product retail prices, ...

I get asked all the time how I scrape data, so today I’m sharing my favorite tools - no technical knowledge needed. From ...

New research has revealed the scale of the growing problem of web scraping across some of the world's biggest websites. Decodo's (formerly Smartproxy) report of the most scraped websites of 2024 ...

In a putative class action filed on June 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California, and in other similar cases, plaintiffs allege that OpenAI, Microsoft, and their respective affiliates ...

In today’s information-driven economy, web scraping, the practice of extracting data from websites, has become a crucial tool across various sectors. As we look ahead to 2025, its role is poised to ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against ...