Data scraping is a technique in which automated tools-- robots or “bots”--are used to extract large quantities of data from a website. In some cases, the extracted data has been developed by the ...

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...

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 ...

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, data scraping is a hot topic. The copying of online text, images and videos has beneficial use cases (e.g. training AI models for more ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

Retail markets move fast, especially now that many, if not all, major retailers are betting big on emphasizing ecommerce over physical locations. As part of this push, the once-reviled practice of ...