Scraping a few pages with a couple of popular tools is a straightforward process, but scaling to millions of pages moves beyond writing good code into creating a robust distributed system that can ...

The so-called surface web is accessible to all of us and is less interesting. No wonder you came here asking how to access the dark web. We know what you’re thinking, or some of you. Use Tor to visit ...

I’m using OpenClaw more and more each week, and as such, I’m fine-tuning my setup as I go. This brand new category of software is moving very quickly, which doesn’t help with achieving a sense of ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Google LLC sued SerpApi LLC for allegedly bypassing its technological protections to scrape copyrighted content from search results, accusing the Texas company of violating a federal digital copyright ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

Much of today’s most valuable environmental information is locked inside inaccessible websites and fragmented datasets. Web scraping empowers journalists to extract, organize, and analyze information ...

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 ...

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 ...