Web scraping can be an invaluable skill to possess when working on data-related projects because many interesting analytics projects often start not with over-explored internal data, but with the ...

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...

Our Dollars for Docs news application lets readers search pharmaceutical company payments to doctors. We’ve written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data. These recipes may be ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...

Web scraping tools are helpful for gathering data from various web pages. For example, price comparison sites that share the best deals usually grab their information from specific feeds e-tailers set ...

Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its “pay-per-crawl” ...

There’s gold in them thar’ Webs! Yes indeed, out there amongst the LOL Cats and dancing babies are thousands of Web sites with useful data just waiting to be exploited; but how to actually get it?