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US court fully legalized website scraping and technically prohibited it
On September 9, the U.S. 9th circuit court of Appeals ruled (Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California) that web scraping public sites does not violate the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). This is a really important decision. The court not only legalized Read more…
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Web Scraping or Parsing Internet resources – what is it and is it legal?
Web scraping or otherwise web parsing is an automated collection of information from various Internet resources, which is carried out through the use of a specially developed computer program-bot. Bots are developed for those cases when it is necessary to perform monotonous, routine, based on the same algorithm of actions, Read more…
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What awaits Big Data in 2020: results of the past decade and future prospects
The main IT trends of the last 10 years In the first 10 years of the 21st century, Cloud computing and its SaaS / PaaS/IaaS-based solutions have successfully taken their place in the corporate infrastructure landscape. NoSQL-DBMS, BI-systems and containerization (virtualization) technologies are no longer a toy for geeks and Read more…
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Why has web scraping become popular?
At present, companies of any branch have a strong dependence on the data collected in the market, their competitors, the global industry, statistics, and a large number and indicators that are vital for survival. The availability of data is everywhere, with the Internet being the primary source for many companies Read more…