As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

Sometimes data you want is available on a Web page, but not in form you can easily download. That’s where Web-scraping comes in. Most general-purpose computer languages have a library for easily ...

R. Mark Halligan of FisherBroyles LLP discusses Compulife Software, Inc. v. Newman and whether trade secret misappropriation occurred in "scraping" a public website to acquire a competitor's data.

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

[James Turk] has a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with. How ...

The fruits of web scraping — using code to harvest data and information from websites — are all around us. Scrapers are also the tools of watchdogs and journalists, which is why The Markup ...