And for script developers using PHP, Ruby or Python, screen scraping has evolved into an art form.

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

Since their inception, websites are used to share information. Whether it is a Wikipedia article, YouTube channel, Instagram account, or a Twitter handle. They all ...

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 scripts ...

Despite the flaws of ‘screen scraping,’ Ottawa should be thoughtful in how it phases it out Parna Sabet-Stephenson Special to The Globe and Mail Published December 14, 2024 Updated December 15 ...

Plaid's CEO said the company made a risky gamble in its early days. Plaid pulled user data from 12,000 banks using screen scraping. Some of the company's early work with banks was "antagonistic," said ...

Company has replaced inbound screen scraping with safe and secure consumer-permissioned data sharing through open-banking APIs across hundreds of thousands of apps and millions of accountholders ...