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In 2023, Meta sued Bright Data for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram, alleging that its scraping breached Facebook and Instagram’s terms of service and is thus a breach of contract.

The reputation of web scraping hasn’t always been the best. Unsavory actors have cast a shadow over the reputable parts of the web scraping industry at large, and it has to stop.

Web scraping challenges, ranging from IP bans and data accuracy to legal compliance issues, can trip up businesses trying to use web data to fuel machine learning and to make better decisions.

Flipping a coin, going with your gut, closing your eyes and begging the universe for guidance on how to proceed — these all have their place, sure. But using data to make decisions is a far more reliable approach in business.

We're just coming off an intense Black Friday season, and being such a significant date for ecommerce web data we have some great news to share!