AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites.

What Is Web Scraping? Web scraping involves using a computer program, script or bot to impersonate a human user, download web pages and parse through the contents to look for specific information.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

[James Turk] has a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with. How ...

OpenAI's in-house tools have real-time answering blind spots. The company's solution could be to patch it with Google's search index.

So now Reworkd is a web-scraping company, specifically building AI agents to extract structured data from the public web.

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

OpenAI and Anthropic have been found to be either ignoring or circumventing an established web rule, called robots.txt, that prevents automated scraping of websites, according to a person with ...