Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it.

Whether it’s called data scraping, data extraction, web harvesting, web crawling or screen scraping, all these processes share a common goal: efficiently gathering vast amounts of data from the web.

The MPs around the table did not dispute the necessity of certain departments resorting to using data extraction tools for investigations, but some MPs said carrying out a privacy impact ...