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.

As industries continue to rely on data-driven strategies, ethical and responsible web scraping will play a critical role in ensuring businesses stay competitive.

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth ...

LinkedIn can’t use anti-hacking law to block web scraping, judges rule HiQ can keep scraping LinkedIn member profile data as court upholds injunction.

An appeals court Monday ruled in favor of hiQ Labs, a company that automatically gathers data from LinkedIn profiles, despite LinkedIn’s claims that this practice endangers user privacy.