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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them ...

Parna Sabet-Stephenson is the leader of Gowling WLG’s Financial Services and Technology (FSxT) Group. Whether they know it or not, an estimated nine million Canadians routinely share their private ...

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 ...

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 ...