Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic. This unseen subway ...

The recent surge in grocery prices, specifically the price of eggs, has led to a wave of memes sharing photos of barren ...

Tarpits were originally designed to waste spammers' time and resources, but creators like Aaron have now evolved the tactic ...

Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr .

These web crawlers, created by the San Francisco-based company, are said to have stretched some businesses' online bandwidth to the limit, even disregarding instructions to ignore specific websites.

As the Trump administration purges federal webpages from the internet, several organizations, such as Harvard University, are ...

Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X.  That’s because the ad ...

For example, search engine crawlers can follow internal links to locate and index web pages. But a sitemap makes it easier for search engines like Google and Bing to find your key pages ...

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them. Web crawlers play a central role in the race for the best AI model ...