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Abstract: Web crawler technology is the technology which downloads web pages through the program. This paper implements incremental Python web crawler, uses Scrapy crawler framework, crawls news web ...

On August 19, 2025, Firecrawl announced the closing of a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Y Combinator, and other ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

It's AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the 'stealth crawling' of restricted websites. The disagreement has spiralled to name calling, even, as ...

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After Cloudflare started testing new features that would allow websites to block AI crawlers or require payment for scraping, the tech company immediately faced questions over the logistics of the ...

The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites. The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced ...

The move could reshape how LLM developers gather information — and force new deals between creators and AI companies. Cloudflare has reversed its block on AI-crawling from optional to default, ...

Firecrawl redefines web data acquisition for the AI era, offering developers an enterprise-grade tool kit that abstracts away web scraping complexities. As organizations increasingly rely on large ...