For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

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, ...

Data scraping is a technique in which automated tools-- robots or “bots”--are used to extract large quantities of data from a website. In some cases, the extracted data has been developed by the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

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 ...

The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — On remand from the Supreme Court, a Ninth Circuit panel signaled Monday that it will reaffirm its prior stance that companies like LinkedIn cannot use a 1984 anti-hacking law to ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from websites that clearly said “no.” According to Cloudflare, Perplexity has been ...

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...