Web scraping used to be simple. A few lines of Python, a requests.get() call, and the data you needed landed in your terminal. In 2026, that approach gets you blocked ...

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...

Lets geek out. The HackerNoon library is now ranked by reading time created. Start learning by what others read most. Lets geek out. The HackerNoon library is now ranked by reading time created. Start ...

The so-called surface web is accessible to all of us and is less interesting. No wonder you came here asking how to access the dark web. We know what you’re thinking, or some of you. Use Tor to visit ...

One day, I was doing some competitor research for my own product. I was mindlessly copying product names, prices, and review counts from e-commerce search results and pasting them into a spreadsheet.

I’m using OpenClaw more and more each week, and as such, I’m fine-tuning my setup as I go. This brand new category of software is moving very quickly, which doesn’t help with achieving a sense of ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

Is the data publicly available? How good is the quality of the data? How difficult is it to access the data? Even if the first two answers are a clear yes, we still can’t celebrate, because the last ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

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 ...