What Is Web Scraping? Web scraping involves using a computer program, script or bot to impersonate a human user, download web pages and parse through the contents to look for specific information.

LinkedIn can’t use anti-hacking law to block web scraping, judges rule HiQ can keep scraping LinkedIn member profile data as court upholds injunction.

As industries continue to rely on data-driven strategies, ethical and responsible web scraping will play a critical role in ensuring businesses stay competitive.

Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter.

An appeals court Monday ruled in favor of hiQ Labs, a company that automatically gathers data from LinkedIn profiles, despite LinkedIn’s claims that this practice endangers user privacy.

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth ...