To be sure, screen scraping — which allows data aggregators to pretend to be an online banking customer in order to gain account entry — has been necessary with banks widely refusing direct access for ...

A major investment by prominent VCs in a Web-based “data extraction” firm shows there may truly be just one way to get at some of the world’s most critical data. The screen scraper has a history as ...

It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and ...

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Most CoolMon extensions essentially do screen scraping via js/vbs scrpts which download and parse the html source, and then write the pieces you care about to disk.<BR><BR> Here is a really long ...

Ryanair says it gets 99 percent of its bookings from its website in a distribution model that has some parallels to how Southwest Airlines does business. Expedia doesn't offer Southwest's flights to ...

This story was written by Robert Andrews. Stewart Brand may have said "information wants to be free", but some companies don't want it to be so free that rivals can profit from it. Online financial ...

As one of the oldest tricks in the digital marketing book, website scraping is still a premiere way of getting data. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Website scraping has ...

To be sure, screen scraping — which allows data aggregators to pretend to be an online banking customer in order to gain account entry — has been necessary with banks widely refusing direct access for ...