AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

The increase in web scraping is linked to ByteDance’s development of a new large language model (LLM) to improve TikTok’s search capabilities.

Web scraping could be used for illegal web crawling, such as stealing content and data, creating online accounts, online spamming, account takeover, stealing competitive pricing models, manipulating ...

Web scraping has evolved from simple, rudimentary scripts into sophisticated, AI-powered systems designed for real-time data collection.

What Is Web Scraping? Web scraping involves using a computer program, script or bot to impersonate a human user, download web pages and parse through the contents to look for specific information.