Web-scraping is essentially the task of finding out what input a website expects and understanding the format of its response. For example, Recovery.gov takes a user’s zip code as input before ...

Since their inception, websites are used to share information. Whether it is a Wikipedia article, YouTube channel, Instagram account, or a Twitter handle. They all are packed with interesting data ...

AI-assisted web scraping is the use of traditional scraping methods alongside machine learning models to detect patterns, extract data and handle dynamic pages with less manual rule-writing. According ...

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 ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...

T-Mobile faces a restraining order after a judge ruled against its scraping data practices involving AT&T customer accounts.