As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

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 ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping ...

Pay Per Crawl, a scheme announced last year that allows users to charge AI companies wanting to scrape their content, is now in beta. To date, Cloudflare has not revealed the names of any Pay Per ...

Welcome to a new tutorial series on Beautiful Soup 4! Beautiful Soup 4 is a web scraping module that allows you to get information from HTML documents and modify them as well. It's very versatile and ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has ...

In February, the online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly three million photographs of different species, started to receive millions of hits to its website every day — a much ...