the.com/scraping
the internet reading itself so you don't have to.
means automated extraction of data from websites by parsing their code instead of asking nicely for an API.
from from web scraping, coined as programs began crawling html and scraping usable data off the page like barnacles off a hull.
legal gray zonepublic data scraping is mostly legal, terms of service disagree.
arms racesites build anti-bot walls, scrapers build better disguises.
ai fuelmost large language models were trained on scraped text.
robots.txta polite request scrapers can simply ignore.