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 ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...