In the realm of research, a significant shift has occurred, marking the transition from the physical confines of libraries and archives to the expansive digital universe. This transformation signifies ...

One critical challenge faced by web scrapers is the high prevalence of anti-scraping measures implemented by various websites. Now, many websites will block you for good reasons. Perhaps your IP ...

There is already a ton of controversy surrounding AI, especially with the use of ChatGPT in papers, articles, and elsewhere. However, OpenAI (the company that developed the ChatGPT chatbot) is kicking ...

Web scraping is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the advent of large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems. These technological advancements are reshaping data extraction, ...

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 ...

Web scraping is as old as the Internet, but it's a threat that rarely gets its due. Companies frequently underestimate its risk potential because it is technically not a "hack" or "breach." A recent ...

In an attempt to address ongoing regulatory uncertainty about how the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and UK Data Protection Act 2018 apply to the development and use of generative ...

Two of the world’s leading AI startups, OpenAI and Anthropic, are reportedly disregarding requests from media publishers to cease scraping their web content for free model training data. What Happened ...

AI-assisted web scraping is the use of traditional scraping methods alongside machine learning models to detect patterns, extract data and handle dynamic pages with less manual rule-writing. According ...

[Rajesh] put web scraping to good use in order to gather the information important to him. He’s published two posts about it. One scrapes Amazon daily to see if the books he wants to read have reached ...