I was running a competitive analysis project last month, scraping product prices across different regions. Being budget-conscious, I started with free proxies—and quickly learned a painful lesson.

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using automated tools and software. This technique can be incredibly valuable for entrepreneurs because it allows gathering information ...

When it comes to web scraping, few legal battles are as high-stakes or as ironic as the current clash between Google and ...

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 ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

Anthony J. Dreyer and Jamie Stockton of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom write that the technological explosion that has created a vast repository of "publicly available" information on the Web ...

When visiting multiple web pages simultaneously, you might have seen prompts that check if you're human. While some websites use these to manage visitor load, others use them to protect web server ...

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 ...