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

Are there any free web screen scraping tools, preferrably written in PHP or Java? Fairly basic requirements: the ability to pull down a page and put it in a data structure or xml file that is easy ...

More and more websites are taking steps to ensure that rivals do not grab their data using scraping software.

As the industry works to improve the way online banking information is shared with personal financial management apps, a debate is brewing over whether to end the decades-old practice of screen ...

Screen scraping has evolved significantly over the years. A major historical milestone occurred when the screen scraping concept was applied to the Internet and the web crawler was invented.

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.