Abstract: Web scraping, often known as web crawling, is employing software to gather data from websites automatically. It is a procedure that is very crucial in domains like business intelligence in ...

This repository provides normalized datasets of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation rates, along with the scraping and normalization scripts used to generate them. ⚠️ This ...

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San ...

I’ve lived a multi-monitor lifestyle since the CRT days. I’ve since upgraded over the years, most recently to an ultrawide monitor paired with a portrait 1080p screen, and didn’t think much of it… ...

News publishers are actively fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical defenses. Companies are deploying cyber tactics like AI Tarpits and ...

Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,” he wrote.

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...