Meta will start scraping conversations with AI chatbots to gather data for the purpose of ad targeting. The company says this data will be used to "personalize the content and ads" that people see ...

Modern scraping APIs pair AI-generated parsers with layered browsing modes. Many APIs offer request, JS-rendered, anti-bot ...

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. I write to ...

We live in a world—and deal with markets—increasingly driven by data. Consumers and companies throughout the globe generate massive amounts of data at any given moment. Internet searches, mobile phone ...

The April 2021 leak exposed the phone numbers, locations, and birthdates of Facebook users on the platform ... including removing the ability to scrape our features in this way using phone numbers.

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from websites that clearly said “no.” According to Cloudflare, Perplexity has been ...