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Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...

Web scraping is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the advent of large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems. These technological advancements are reshaping data extraction, ...

Reworkd’s founders went viral on GitHub last year with AgentGPT, a free tool to build AI agents that acquired more than 100,000 daily users in a week. This earned them a spot in Y Combinator’s summer ...

Pavlo Zinkovskyi is the co-founder and CTO of Infatica.io, which offers a wide range of proxy support for residential and mobile needs. Research is a cornerstone of human progress, which holds ...

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 ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using automated tools and software. This technique can be incredibly valuable for entrepreneurs because it allows gathering information ...