I get asked all the time how I scrape data, so today I’m sharing my favorite tools - no technical knowledge needed. From ...

In 2008, the Austin-based data startup Infochimps released a scrape of Twitter data that was later taken down at the request of the microblogging site because of user privacy concerns. Infochimps has ...

As the amount (and value) of online data continues to grow exponentially, so does the practice of internet data scraping—that is, the harvesting of data from third-party websites for commercial ...

On March 11, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Barrera released a second revision to the draft California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. The new ...

Let’s be honest: nobody dreams of spending their days copying and pasting data from websites into spreadsheets. Yet, for sales, marketing, and operations teams, the hunt for fresh leads, competitive ...

Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against ...