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[James Turk] has a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with.

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Scraping growth accelerated, doubling in volume per website from Q3 to Q4 2024. Scrapes per page more than tripled, and there were 40% more unauthorized scrapes in Q4. Moreover, ToolBit determined ...