Macquarie University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search ...

Trafilatura is a Python package and command-line tool designed to gather text on the Web. It includes discovery, extraction and text processing components. Its main applications are web crawling, ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

Structured data gathering from any website using AI-powered scraper, crawler, and browser automation. Scraping and crawling with natural language prompts. Equip your LLM agents with fresh data. AI ...

Perplexity AI has been caught in the crosshairs of another row over data scraping, this time with Reddit. The forum giant filed legal action against the AI research app, accusing Perplexity and three ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

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 Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web 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 ...

Platforms Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' AI 'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act ...