A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...

The ever innovative minds at OpenAI have just unveiled GPTBot, a web crawler that could give a significant boost to the performance of future AI models, including GPT-4 and the much-anticipated GPT-5.

Cloudflare's crawl-to-refer ratio is a solid guide to how much tech companies are taking from the web, and how much they're ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

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 ...

There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose. We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and ...

Cloudflare is introducing a way to charge AI web scrapers Content creators can protect their sites from unwanted scrapers Specific crawlers can be granted free access, charged, or blocked Online ...

A new automated web application scanner autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications. The tool named YuraScanner harnesses the world knowledge stored in Large Language ...

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ...

MediaCloud, a Berkman Center project, and StopBadware, a former Berkman Center project that has spun off as an independent organization, have each built systems to crawl websites and save the results ...