Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of ...

Websites make information available to clients, users, customers and subscribers. Data aggregators, investors, competitors and others are always thinking of new and productive ways to use that data – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Website scraping has been a growth hacking technique since well before the term growth hack even existed. Starting out from simple copy ...

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 ...