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 ...

A recent surge in generative AI scraper bot activity has been observed impacting the online landscape. New data indicates that these “gray bots” are increasingly targeting web applications.

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called "AI Labyrinth" that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

It's AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the 'stealth crawling' of restricted websites. The disagreement has spiralled to name calling, even, as ...