Vincent's home on the web
Actionable data abounds on the web. Key business insights can be derived from it.
I used Python quite extensively to scrape data on the web for various projects. Below are links to my four favorites. Just before is my preferred definition of web scraping:
"Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract content and data from a website. Unlike screen scraping, which only copies pixels displayed onscreen, web scraping extracts underlying HTML code and, with it, data stored in a database [...]" - Imperva.com