A new Y Combinator-backed startup called Kimono wants to make it easier to access data from the unstructured web with a point-and-click tool that can extract information from webpages that don’t have ...

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 ...

The internet is not permanent. That's something most of us forget until a favorite blog goes offline, a forum shuts down or a decade-old article you'd bookmarked for research is no longer available.

The term Web scraping refers to the process or technique of extracting information from various websites using specially coded software programs. This software program stimulates the human exploration ...

Publishers are now fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical ...

The amount of information on the Internet is only equaled by the number of rich resources in any field. As the size and complexity of data sets on the web have grown, collecting and storing this ...