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.

Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

It makes the whole process of retrieving specific data very easy and straightforward. This tutorial will be an ultimate guide for you to learn web scraping using Python programming language.

The process of web scraping for external real-time data is still pretty new, so not many companies are doing it. However, those who do should see results and advantages.