With the rapid expansion of digital information, accessing Big Data via Web Scraping or Web Data Extraction has become much easier. Having said that, web scraping can be used by digital businesses ...

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 ...

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"Web scraping," also called crawling or spidering, is the automated gathering of data from someone else's website. Scraping is an essential part of how the Internet functions. For example, Google uses ...

As one of the oldest tricks in the digital marketing book, website scraping is still a premiere way of getting data. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Website scraping has ...

Web scraping is as old as the Internet, but it's a threat that rarely gets its due. Companies frequently underestimate its risk potential because it is technically not a "hack" or "breach." A recent ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig’s global team of web crawling experts with in-depth domain expertise has a proven track record of identifying and implementing web analytics best practices to create ...

For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...