Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it.

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI.

Previously, S&P only had data on about 2 million SMEs, but its AI-powered RiskGauge platform expanded that to 10 million.

Easy, effortless Web Scraping as it should be! Installation · Overview · Selection methods · Choosing a fetcher · Migrating from Beautifulsoup Dealing with failing web scrapers due to anti-bot ...

Web scraping: Fetch HTML documents associated with web pages, which can then be parsed using libraries like BeautifulSoup for extracting specific information. Testing web applications: Simulate HTTP ...

Cloudflare’s new AI Labyrinth tool sends malicious AI web crawlers into a hole full of useless, AI-generated webpages.

Now, those machines are being sent back to scrape the web again, occasionally encountering their own waste product in the wild, all on the way to a glorious if ill-defined post-web, post-human future.

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