Google, Reddit Complaints Allege Texas Web-Scraping Service Violates DMCA

Google alleges SerpApi is a “parasitic” enterprise. SerpApi maintains its services are protected by the First Amendment and ...
Popular Science

How to use AI Mode instead of regular Google searches (or avoid it altogether)

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. AI has made its way into nearly all of the apps and websites we use ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...
ZDNet

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...
GitHub

TLS Requests is a powerful Python library for secure HTTP requests, offering browser-like TLS client, fingerprinting, anti-bot page bypass, and high performance.

To install the library, you can choose between two methods: TLS Requests is a cutting-edge HTTP client for Python, offering a feature-rich, highly configurable alternative to the popular requests ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Report: ChatGPT Using SerpApi To Scrape Google Search Results

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...
ZDNet

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

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 ...
Fast Company

Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: A web-scraping war with big implications for AI

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 ...
IEEE

Comparative Analysis of Web Scraping Methodologies Using Generative AI

Abstract: Web scraping is a method of extracting information from websites, and it plays a crucial role in data collection for various applications such as market research, academic studies, and ...
Ars Technica

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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 ...
SlashGear

Can You Use Regular Coolant For A Diesel Engine?

Responsible car ownership means checking your fluid levels at least once or twice a month. If you are a first-time diesel engine owner, you may wonder if it's safe to use regular coolant in your ...