Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing costly scraping with structured function calls.

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Web scraping tools gather a website's pertinent information for you to peruse or download. Learn how to create your own web ...

ProAPIs, a startup accused by LinkedIn of illegally scraping data from its website in an October lawsuit, has reached an ...

The jury’s out on screen scraping versus official APIs. And the truth is, any AI agent worth its salt will likely need a mixture of both.

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

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 ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...