Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain ...

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

Web scraping has evolved from simple, rudimentary scripts into sophisticated, AI-powered systems designed for real-time data collection.

Getting Started To get us started, you will need to start a new Python3 project with and install Scrapy (a web scraping and web crawling library for Python).

Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis that found browser extensions installed on 4 million browsers collected users’ every movement on the web and shared them with customers of Nacho ...

When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

Without a ruling in place, long-running projects to archive websites no longer online and using publicly accessible data for academic and research studies have been left in legal limbo.

In the digital age, data is king, and the goal of web scraping API is to send a request to a website of your choice and, in return, collect data. While scraping APIs are not that complex to set up ...

Even sloppy web design can sabotage a scraping project — a problem that Luscombe often grapples with when scraping government-run websites.