This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte.

Web scraping is a powerful technique for extracting data from websites, and it has numerous applications in fields such as data science, market research, and business intelligence. In this article, ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites.

Fed up with AI scraping your content? This open-source bot blocker can help - here's how Meet Anubis, the self-hosted firewall that's stopping AI bots in their tracks.

The AI Scraping Fight That Could Change the Future of the Web News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content By Isabella ...

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block these bots from scraping self-hosted sites.

Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the Web, and the move is seen as a win for the publishing industry. Previously, website owners using Cloudflare could choose to block AI bots, also known as ...

Adding to that quiver, Cloudflare is launching the sharp and pointy Pay Per Crawl scheme, which aims to hit AI companies scraping online content where it hurts—namely, their deep pockets.

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default, giving website owners more control over how their content is accessed and used.

Welcome to a new tutorial series on Beautiful Soup 4! Beautiful Soup 4 is a web scraping module that allows you to get information from HTML documents and modify them as well.