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.

I used the XChat Python API and Twitter's web API to develop my plugin. When my plugin is loaded into XChat with the Plugins and Scripts dialog, it adds a /tweet command that can be used to send ...

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

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.

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

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.

When Twitter started enforcing the login requirement, Musk said that he took these “temporary” measures to prevent data scraping. “Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged ...

  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 ...