While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Some call it theft, others call it legitimately gathering business intelligence - and everyone is doing it. Screen scraping might sound like something you do to the car windows on a frosty morning, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Screen scraping is a tactic often used by criminals to steal data, but financial services companies are increasingly making legitimate use of it. Angelique Ruzicka looks at what the process entails ...