Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an application programming interface (API). Marketers, web developers and ordinary users can employ it to save time ...

We provide a lengthy discussion on the legalities regarding web scraping, including breach of terms and conditions, copyright law, the computer fraud and abuse act, and so on, though the basics boil ...

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.