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 ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

BrowserAct, a global automation company, has launched a major update to its intelligent web scraping and data-agent platform -- introducing a Precision Automation Framework designed to minimize AI ...

Bright Data operates a global proxy network designed to collect publicly available web content, and customers are voluntarily joining the network so that they can spare ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

Google has escalated its fight over who gets to profit from the web’s data, filing a lawsuit that accuses rival SerpApi of ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or ...

A strategic approach is needed to address scraping risks and safeguard intellectual capital from automated data harvesting.

Major news publishers have blocked Internet Archive access due to fears AI companies will use it as a backdoor to scrape content without authorization.