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, ...

Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of ...

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 ...

The amount of information on the Internet is only equaled by the number of rich resources in any field. As the size and complexity of data sets on the web have grown, collecting and storing this ...

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. September 23, 2024 - The issue in Compulife Software, Inc. v. Newman, No. 21-14074 (11th Cir. Aug. 1, 2024) was whether ...

Information is the new oil, and fast data extraction sets leaders apart. As web data grows rapidly, practical tools are needed to extract this information. Traditional web scraping methods often ...

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 ...

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When visiting multiple web pages simultaneously, you might have seen prompts that check if you're human. While some websites use these to manage visitor load, others use them to protect web server ...