Web scraping traces its roots back to the very origin of the internet. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web to enable faster communication among researchers. In those early days ...

News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

Meta's new AI bots, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-ExternalFetcher, scrape web data and may bypass robots.txt rules.

Bright Data claimed it is not a “user” of Facebook or Instagram if it is not logged into a Meta account while scraping, and Chen agreed. “When subjected to established canons of construction, the ...

How can we stop artificial intelligence (AI) from stealing our content? US-based web services provider Cloudflare says it has come up with a solution to web scraping - by setting up an "AI ...

In this case, Meta had brought to the court an example of Bright Data’s web-scraping activities — a massive dataset that included 615 million records of Instagram data that sold for $860,000.

Meta has emerged from the Metaverse to become a major player on the AI court. As such, the company has its own team of web crawlers that scrape pages that don’t have the Robots.txt protocol. Or ...

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One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta's breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram.

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. Paul Graham-backed startup Reworkd is ...