How To Automate Any Web Scraping Workflow With AI

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

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...
The Verge

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
Search Engine Roundtable

Report: ChatGPT Using SerpApi To Scrape Google Search Results

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...
ZDNet

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers target Python devs in phishing attacks using fake PyPI site

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...
IEEE

Web Scraping Using Beautiful Soup

Abstract: This paper explores the power of Beautiful Soup, a Python library, for web scraping. We delve into the advantages of web scraping for data acquisition, highlighting its limitations and ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Windows Central

Perplexity launches "Comet" AI web browser to take on Chrome and Edge — and you can use it today for $200 a month

Popular AI answer engine Perplexity has announced that it's launching a new AI-powered web browser called "Comet" today, and it's available to download and use right now. Just make sure you're ...
PC Gamer

Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrape

Pay Per Crawl, a scheme announced last year that allows users to charge AI companies wanting to scrape their content, is now in beta. To date, Cloudflare has not revealed the names of any Pay Per ...
ZDNet

This proxy provider I tested is the best for web scraping - and it's not IPRoyal or MarsProxies

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