Proxies block malicious bots, prevent data scraping, and detect proxy-aided fraud by filtering traffic and enforcing centralized security policies.

For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that. It's a huge amount of raw information. By comparison, there are only roughly 10,000 web APIs- ...

The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

The fruits of web scraping — using code to harvest data and information from websites — are all around us. Scrapers are also the tools of watchdogs and journalists, which is why The Markup filed an ...

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Technological advances have transformed public health surveillance toward tracking, managing and taking action in the advents of health crises. Early data collection and statistical methods have ...