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 ...

Are there any free web screen scraping tools, preferrably written in PHP or Java? Fairly basic requirements: the ability to pull down a page and put it in a data structure or xml file that is easy to ...

The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

When American Airlines sued Farechase, Inc. in Federal District Court in Texas earlier this year, claiming that Farechase's “screen-scraping” of AA's flight information from AA.com was illegal, it was ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...