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 ...

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...

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, ...

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 ...

Myriam Jessier asked Google about what would be good attributes of a web crawler. In which both Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes gave some responses to. Myriam Jessier asked on Bluesky, "what are the ...

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 Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

One of the internet's biggest gatekeepers has accused a rising AI star of breaking the web's oldest rules. The explosive feud could change how we all get information online. Reading time 3 minutes A ...

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 ...

Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or ...