One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites, allowing organizations to gather large amounts of information from the web. This information allows ...

An internal email sent in error to a Belgian journalist describes Facebook's strategy for changing the narrative about data scraping ahead of further incidents. Katie ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report claims that the personal information of 1.5 billion Facebook users has been put on sale through web scraping. A member of a hacking forum talked about ...

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 ...