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fromComputerworld
1 day ago

Rise of AI crawlers and bots causing web traffic havoc

AI-driven crawlers generate roughly 80% of AI bot requests, Meta produces over half of AI bot traffic, and fetcher bots can spike to 39,000 requests per minute.
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Cloudflare says Perplexity's AI bots are 'stealth crawling' blocked sites

Cloudflare claims that Perplexity conceals its crawling identity to circumvent website restrictions, resulting in concerns over unauthorized content scraping from various sites.
Privacy professionals
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
4 weeks ago

OpenAI Crawling LLMs.txt Files? Google Says It Won't.

OpenAI is actively crawling LLMS.txt files on various websites, despite Google's claims of non-support.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won't.

Challenges in passing tech legislation continue as technology advances rapidly, complicating the regulation of artificial intelligence.
fromMedium
1 month ago

DOM-Aware Web Crawling with Apache Pekko and Playwright

The result is a web crawler that can open headless browsers, click to expand content, traverse and extract text from a target DOM element, retry failed requests, and extract internal links for recursive crawling.
Web development
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Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees | TechCrunch

Firecrawl is focused on employing AI agents to improve its web scraping service and customer support efficiency.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
4 months ago

Wikipedia offers AI developers a training dataset to maybe get scraper bots off its back

Wikipedia is providing a structured dataset for AI developers in response to server strain caused by bots.
The new dataset aims to relieve bandwidth consumption and improve human user experience.
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