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 ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

An increasing number of agencies are waking up to a growing threat: AI companies are quietly scraping creative work on the web without permission. What started as a concern for authors and artists is ...

US District Judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping company accused of improperly accessing X (formerly Twitter) systems and violating both X ...

The banks want the pay-by-bank provider to use application programming interfaces to protect consumers, they say.