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 ...

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 ...