A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...

Opening the same website every time, checking for necessary information, and transcribing it into Excel or a spreadsheet. Do you have tasks like these? For example, checking product prices. Checking ...

Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

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Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

A Python script that allows users to fetch and optionally save the HTML content from a specified URL using `requests` library.

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

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 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 ...