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.

My go-to language for web scraping is Python, as it has well-integrated libraries that can generally handle all of the functionality required. And sure enough, a Selenium library exists for Python.

What Web Scraping Is And Why It's Important In a nutshell, web scraping is an automated method of extracting data from websites. Specialized software scans webpages, retrieves the relevant ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic — and a confusing one, from a legal point of view. According to Arezou Rezai of UK-based law firm Paris Smith, "There is no specific law prohibiting scraping." ...