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.

A bot exposes Twitter’s financials—was the scraping an illegal hack? [Updated] Selerity's exploit reminds us of hacking defendant Andrew Auernheimer's case.

When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

  On Monday, Dasient, a Sunnyvale-based internet security firm, announced that it had been acquired by social media giant, Twitter. "Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology ...