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 ...

Cloudflare's Year in Review shows Googlebot crawled 200 times more pages than PerplexityBot. Global Internet traffic grew 19%. Googlebot crawled more than 200 times the share reached by PerplexityBot.

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, ...

When you’re getting into web development, you’ll hear a lot about Python and JavaScript. They’re both super popular, but they do different things and have their own quirks. It’s not really about which ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest annual Python Developers Survey, born from a collaboration between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains, took the pulse of over 30,000 developers to see what makes the community ...

Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...