Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

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 ...

With the rapid expansion of digital information, accessing Big Data via Web Scraping or Web Data Extraction has become much easier. Having said that, web scraping can be used by digital businesses ...

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As of 2015, nearly a quarter of all website visits are by data scrapers. Not only are the numbers even higher in some industries, they have likely increased. Given the enormous role scrapers play in ...

To be sure, screen scraping — which allows data aggregators to pretend to be an online banking customer in order to gain account entry — has been necessary with banks widely refusing direct access for ...

As one of the oldest tricks in the digital marketing book, website scraping is still a premiere way of getting data. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Website scraping has ...

Is it okay to scrape data from another website? This is a frequently asked question that almost always leads to an ambiguous and equivocal answer. Legal practitioners are quick to point out the risks ...