Web scraping is a powerful technique for extracting data from websites, and it has numerous applications in fields such as data science, market research, and business intelligence. In this article, ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or ...

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

News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block these bots from scraping self-hosted sites.

Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.

Adding to that quiver, Cloudflare is launching the sharp and pointy Pay Per Crawl scheme, which aims to hit AI companies scraping online content where it hurts—namely, their deep pockets.

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.

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 ...

Hitherto, internet scraping has been a major part of gathering training data for large LLM (gen-AI) developers; but the process has raised questions and objections over legality, copyright ...