In 2008, the Austin-based data startup Infochimps released a scrape of Twitter data that was later taken down at the request of the microblogging site because of user privacy concerns. Infochimps has ...

With the rapid expansion of digital information, accessing Big Data via Web Scraping or Web Data Extraction has become much easier. Having said that, web scraping can be used by digital businesses ...

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...