Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing ...

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Web scraping tools gather a website's pertinent information for you to peruse or download. Learn how to create your own web ...

In an era where data is the backbone of insight and strategy, businesses are constantly looking for innovative ways to ...

ProAPIs, a startup accused by LinkedIn of illegally scraping data from its website in an October lawsuit, has reached an ...

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.

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

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 ...

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 ...