Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft were reportedly worried about ChatGPT training that scraped millions of news articles.

Meet PitchFly, WIRED’s latest editorial recruit. He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas. A sampling of his early output: “The Hidden Weather Problem Inside ...

Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare has launched a setting that enables website owners to remain visible in search results ...

New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 ...

Oxylabs may be a bit more than the competition but this proxy service offers plenty of features and lots to learn.

An introductory tutorial guiding beginners through the fundamental concepts of HTML structure and demonstrating how to inspect web page elements using a browser to prepare for Python web scraping ...

Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down. The news ...

Most web scraping projects do not fail because the code is wrong. They fail because the target website decided the request did not look like a person, and quietly served a block, a CAPTCHA, or a ...

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a ...

After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly ...

Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed these claims ...