Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Multiple data-scraping groups have abused the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites disguised as Facebook's content crawler. Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your ...

Web scraping bots are technically complex, but their developers have simplified the process for end users. They have visual interfaces that let you type the URL you want to scrape and select the ...

As one of the oldest tricks in the digital marketing book, website scraping is still a premiere way of getting data. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Website scraping has ...

"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 ...

(Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were ...

Scraping a public website without the approval of the website’s owner isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that ...