Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

Zydrunas has spent over 20 years in the IT industry, working in various fields of software development. As the Chief Technology Officer at Oxylabs, a leading web intelligence acquisition platform, ...

The jury’s out on screen scraping versus official APIs. And the truth is, any AI agent worth its salt will likely need a mixture of both.

One critical challenge faced by web scrapers is the high prevalence of anti-scraping measures implemented by various websites. Now, many websites will block you for good reasons. Perhaps your IP ...

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The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

Researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tilburg University, INSEAD, and Oxford University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that proposes a methodological framework focused on ...