Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and ...

Welcome to a new tutorial series on Beautiful Soup 4! Beautiful Soup 4 is a web scraping module that allows you to get information from HTML documents and modify them as well. It's very versatile and ...

A major investment by prominent VCs in a Web-based “data extraction” firm shows there may truly be just one way to get at some of the world’s most critical data. The screen scraper has a history as ...

The world may not have much in the way of graphics cards right now, but we are awash in data. If you want to channel some of that pent-up gaming energy into something productive, the world needs ...

Amadeus recently unveiled Meta Pricer, a new IT solution designed to help resolve ongoing screen-scraping issues among travel search engines and suppliers. Instead of providing inventory via ...