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 ...

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 ...

Just when you thought screen scraping was dead along comes Dappit. To be honest it isn’t really screen scrapping, it is more Web page scraping with the ability to export the data in a wide range of ...

The banks want the pay-by-bank provider to use application programming interfaces to protect consumers, they say.