AI-assisted web scraping is the use of traditional scraping methods alongside machine learning models to detect patterns, extract data and handle dynamic pages with less manual rule-writing. According ...
One critical challenge faced by web scrapers is the high prevalence of anti-scraping measures implemented by various websites. Now, many websites will block you for good reasons. Perhaps your IP ...
Web scraping is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the advent of large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems. These technological advancements are reshaping data extraction, ...
There is already a ton of controversy surrounding AI, especially with the use of ChatGPT in papers, articles, and elsewhere. However, OpenAI (the company that developed the ChatGPT chatbot) is kicking ...
In the realm of research, a significant shift has occurred, marking the transition from the physical confines of libraries and archives to the expansive digital universe. This transformation signifies ...
At the web scraping conference OxyCon 2024, its organizer Oxylabs revealed the first AI copilot for web scraping. It comes as a feature of Oxylabs’ unified Web Scraper API, which serves as an ...
Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...
Web scraping is as old as the Internet, but it's a threat that rarely gets its due. Companies frequently underestimate its risk potential because it is technically not a "hack" or "breach." A recent ...
Two of the world’s leading AI startups, OpenAI and Anthropic, are reportedly disregarding requests from media publishers to cease scraping their web content for free model training data. What Happened ...
The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...