How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

• 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 blocks.

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In the world of industrial web scraping, there are a few major players. Oh, you did not know there was a world of industrial web scraping? Have I got a story for you.

Let's start by defining web scraping. Web scraping is the practice of extracting data from live web pages, the pages the public sees when visiting a website.

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This is different from getting data via programmatic API (application programming interface) calls that the provider of the web page makes available, or ...