Sources & further reading
Synthesised from the references below (June 2026). Dates and details cross-checked across multiple sources; everything is paraphrased.
· Wikipedia — Web scraping / Data scraping
· Web Scraper — Brief History of Web Scraping
· arXiv 1405.0749 — A Brief History of Web Crawlers
· Grokipedia — Wanderer / PhantomJS / Scrapy
· Wikipedia — cURL / Wget; daniel.haxx.se
· crummy.com — Beautiful Soup (L. Richardson)
· selenium.dev — History of Selenium
· github.com/pablohoffman — Scrapy / Zyte
· Wikipedia — PhantomJS (ariya.io)
· LogRocket — Playwright vs Puppeteer
· iswebscrapinglegal.com — Web scraping case law
· Wikipedia — hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn
· California Lawyers Assn. — hiQ / Van Buren
· AIMultiple — Is Web Scraping Legal?
· Trend Micro — Residential proxies & CAPTCHA
· arXiv 2311.13233 — Survey of CAPTCHAs
· No Hacks — Agentic Browser Landscape 2026
· Fordel — AI Browser Agents 2026
· Zylos — Computer Use & GUI agents
· OpenAI — Buy it in ChatGPT (ACP)
· GitHub — Agentic Commerce Protocol
· AgenticPlug — State of agentic commerce
· suhendro.com — IBM 3270 screen scraping
