Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged audio files to follow. Here is what's included, what's missing, and why it ...

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Much of today’s most valuable environmental information is locked inside inaccessible websites and fragmented datasets. Web scraping empowers journalists to extract, organize, and analyze information ...

The internet contains an enormous amount of valuable information — from product prices and financial data to news, research, and user-generated content. But accessing this information at scale is ...

OpenSecrets is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to tracking money in U.S. politics and its influence on elections and public policy. As the nation’s most comprehensive resource for ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a part of everyday life. It is visible in medical chatbots that guide patients and in generative tools that assist artists, writers, and developers. These ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...