A third-party surveillance tool tracked millions of Discord users across servers. Discord dismantled the site, but SpyPet's admin promises the tool will make a comeback. UPDATE 4/29: The SpyPet site ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Christie's auction house has been accused in a lawsuit of using a computer program to scrape research, images and price information from a rival's website and then reselling that data ...

Web sites such as job boards face a persistent problem: their data is constantly pilfered by automated bots. The data ends up on other competing job boards, which have stolen the content. It’s a ...

An appeals court situated in California, US, today said it’s not illegal to scrape data from public websites without any prior approval. Web scraping refers to the process of collecting large troves ...

German software company PVRadar Labs has released a Python programming toolbox for industry practitioners that are building site-specific models. The package provides a shortcut to to customize yield ...