Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long ...

PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 20: In this photo illustration, the logos of social media applications, Facebook and Instagram are displayed on the screen of an iPhone on February 20, 2023 in Paris, France.

Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced that it’s suing the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese tech company, accusing it of offering data-scraping services for Facebook and Instagram. The social ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Facebook is launching a review of all its "Facebook Marketing Partners," a group of more than 600 marketing and advertising firms bearing the social network's official seal of approval, amid ...