The Next Web

A beginner’s guide to web scraping with Python and Scrapy

Since their inception, websites are used to share information. Whether it is a Wikipedia article, YouTube channel, Instagram account, or a Twitter handle. They all ...
PC Magazine

Wikipedia Tests New Way to Keep AI Bots Away, Preserve Bandwidth

The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the bots don't scrape Wikipedia and stress its servers. AI bots are ...
Mashable

Wikipedia has a solution for the deluge of AI training bots hogging its servers

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...
SiliconANGLE

Wikipedia offers AI developers its article data on Kaggle to stop automated scraping

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an artificial intelligence-ready dataset on Kaggle that’s aimed at dissuading AI ...
Princeton University

Web Scraping and APIs with Python

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 ...