I get asked all the time how I scrape data, so today I’m sharing my favorite tools - no technical knowledge needed. From BuiltWith, a secret hack, and a Chrome extension plus GPT, to Outscraper, I’ll ...

Modern scraping APIs pair AI-generated parsers with layered browsing modes. Many APIs offer request, JS-rendered, anti-bot ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

Information belonging to 553 million Facebook users has been posted online in an incident the company says was due to scraping and not a cyberattack. Facebook IDs, names, dates of birth, gender, ...

It comes from the great minds at Data Golf and it's nothing short of jaw-dropping. Using overall strokes gained, the display charts the game's best players since 1996, the year Tiger turned pro. And ...

So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing startup called Calliope ...

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 ...

On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook to a journalist has revealed the firm's intentions to frame a recent data scraping incident as "normalized" and a "broad industry issue." Facebook has ...