Web scraping used to be simple. A few lines of Python, a requests.get() call, and the data you needed landed in your terminal. In 2026, that approach gets you blocked ...

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...

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One day, I was doing some competitor research for my own product. I was mindlessly copying product names, prices, and review counts from e-commerce search results and pasting them into a spreadsheet.

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

Finding job listings directly from Google Jobs can be a challenge. Since Google dynamically renders and localizes results, simple HTTP requests often fail to return usable data. For developers, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

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 ...

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, ...