The new terms, which are effective from September 29, ban any kind of scraping or crawling without "prior written consent." NOTE: crawling or scraping the Services in any form, for any purpose without ...

Bad news for artificial intelligence giants: Cloudflare has officially updated its AI scraping defaults in an effort to halt the “use of original content without permission.” The self-described ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

A new report from Cloudflare claims that Perplexity has been scraping content from websites that have opted to block AI web scrapers. The company says that Perplexity's continued attempts to hide its ...

SerpApi and similar firms do fulfill a need, but they sit in a legal gray area. Google does not provide an API for its search results, which are based on the world’s largest and most comprehensive web ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

Firecrawl redefines web data acquisition for the AI era, offering developers an enterprise-grade tool kit that abstracts away web scraping complexities. As organizations increasingly rely on large ...