Companies use a variety of causes of actions to protect their websites from competitors or others wanting to “scrape” data from their site using automated tools. Over the years, legal doctrines such ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Website scraping has been a growth hacking technique since well before the term growth hack even existed. Starting out from simple copy ...

X Corp., the company formerly known as Twitter, recently sued Bright Data over its site scraping activities. Bright Data is a data collection company and advertises—among other services—its “website ...

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites. There are many applications for web scraping, including monitoring product retail prices, ...

Multiple data-scraping groups have abused the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites disguised as Facebook's content crawler. Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your ...

"Web scraping," also called crawling or spidering, is the automated gathering of data from someone else's website. Scraping is an essential part of how the Internet functions. For example, Google uses ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...

I’ve waxed poetic about CloudFlare a few times in the past, and with good reason. The company, which focuses on securing websites while having a side-effect of making them insanely fast, has been hard ...