As one of the most popular, versatile, and beginner-friendly programming languages, Python can be used for a variety of tasks from analyzing data to building websites. This workshop explores how to ...

Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

A federal judge has largely sided against Meta Platforms in its battle with the Israeli analytics company Bright Data over data posted by Facebook and Instagram users and designated by them as public.

On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary judgment ruling with potentially wide-ranging ramifications for the ...

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Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Meta has been using a pair of "new" custom web crawlers to scrape AI model training data from across the internet. Though the company hasn't gone out of its way to disclose its use of the crawlers to ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

To get ahead in the AI race, you need several things: compute power, a search engine that gives real-time, referenced and context-based knowledge, and an "answer engine", sort of like the Big Brother ...