Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm token from the lead axios maintainer and published two poisoned versions that drop a ...

AI-Native Subdomains Make AI-Ready Websites Without Technical Overhaul

AI agents struggle with modern, content heavy websites. It's slow and expensive to crawl. The markdown standard makes your ...
TechSpot

Smart TV apps are quietly scraping web data for AI training

Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...
The Verge

Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web

SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...
GitHub

amazon-web-scraping

Crawlbase Amazon Scraper API lets you extract Amazon product data, pricing, and reviews at scale. Built for production scraping with proxy management and anti-bot protection. Start free with 1,000 ...
Wired

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...
Reuters

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...
The Verge

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...
Search Engine Land

Google sues SerpApi over scraping and reselling Search data

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...
TechSpot

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...
Ars Technica

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...
GitHub

web-scraping-python

Structured data gathering from any website using AI-powered scraper, crawler, and browser automation. Scraping and crawling with natural language prompts. Equip your LLM agents with fresh data. AI ...