To grab every Hackaday URL ever, [Alex] wrote a small Python script using the Beautiful Soup screen scraping library.

Getting Started To get us started, you will need to start a new Python3 project with and install Scrapy (a web scraping and web crawling library for Python).

I’m not a very technical person. Once, sick of counting up comments in a forum manually since the software didn’t have that feature, I was able to throw together some screen-scraping Python ...

A CFPB event on data-sharing issues gave the parties a chance to debate the merits and risks of screen scraping, what can replace it and what consumers really want.

As screen scraping tools generally scan the existing consumer-facing web portals of financial providers, a small change to a website can create stability issues for screen scraping tools.