This is a production-grade, distributed web crawler built with Python that implements advanced system design patterns for scalability, politeness, and robustness. The crawler can handle millions of ...

Internet traffic is up 19% in 2025, according to Cloudflare Radar. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is the most-blocked service on the internet. But .Christmas is the most dangerous domain on the planet for spam ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

AI visibility plays a crucial role for SEOs, and this starts with controlling AI crawlers. If AI crawlers can’t access your pages, you’re invisible to AI discovery engines. On the flip side, ...

According to Windows Latest, popular messaging service WhatsApp is downgrading its Windows 11 app to a WebView2 equivalent in the latest update, switching from a native Windows application to a web ...

If you've ever wondered how AI companies like Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta get their training data from paywalled publishers such as the New York Times, Wired, or the Washington Post, we may ...

Is this how AI companies are getting access to paywalled journalism? A new report accuses Common Crawl of doing AI's "dirty work," which the organization denies. Chance Townsend is the General ...

AI web browsers like OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet are capable of circumventing some publications' paywalls to access content normally reserved for paying subscribers, according to a ...

Data scraping is an automated process through which computer programs extract vast amounts of data from the internet at a faster rate than manual data collection methods. Some businesses scrape data ...

Reports reveal that OpenAI uses Google Search data to answer some of users' questions. The topics that use Google Search data mostly surround news, sports, and financial markets. OpenAI retrieves the ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle ...