Scraping Ethics
Is Web Scraping Legal? Laws, Ethics, and Best Practices
If you’re scraping the web, you’ve probably already seen how it has benefited your business. However, if your site is being scraped, it may raise concerns about legality, ethics, and potential harm.
Web Scraping vs Data Mining: Why the Confusion? in 2025
Web scraping and data mining are sometimes confused with each other because they are both linked to extracting value from something that is valuable only when processed. However, the definitions are quite different, and not understanding the difference can cause not realizing how these processes can create value for businesses.
Ethical & Compliant Web Data Benchmark in 2025
As enterprises scale their web data operations, compliance, data, and risk executives increasingly evaluate the associated ethical, reputational, and legal risks. We benchmarked 7 leading web data collection services across 3 dimensions and tested each service with more than 20 potentially unethical scenarios.
6 Main Web Scraping Challenges & Practical Solutions ['25]
Web scraping, the process of extracting required data from web sources, is an essential tool in today’s data-centric world, yet it’s a technique fraught with challenges.