Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites. Search engine provider Perplexity AI is accused ...

Tech giants are rewriting the rules on web scraping, blaming unnamed third parties for disregarding robots.txt, and seemingly claiming the right to reuse anything posted anywhere for AI. Now, ...

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites. There are many applications for web scraping, including monitoring product retail prices, ...

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 ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Cloud connectivity company, Cloudflare, is waging a war against AI bot crawlers. Web scraping, a phenomenon that began accelerating as the power of AI advanced, has crossed legal lines as AI firms are ...

In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web ...

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare is launching a suite of tools that could help shift the power dynamic between AI companies and the websites they crawl for data. Today it’s giving all of its ...

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 ...