Syndication How to use Python and Selenium to scrape websites July 22, 2020 - 11:00 am Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born.

In this Nylon Calculus 101 post, Savvas Tjortjoglou introduces web scraping with Python to grab data for all draftees from the 1966 to 2014 NBA drafts.

He uses a Python script to interface with the Pachube API, which is fed to his Netduino board. A servo motor then changes the position of the dial based on the feed’s data.

What to know about web scraping Web scraping is usually an automated process, but it doesn't have to be; data can be scraped from websites manually, by humans, though that's slow and inefficient ...