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. The screen scraper has a history as ...

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 load the whole page via HTTP and ...

Founding director of The Regtech Association and Verifier CEO, Lisa Schutz, has urged for the Australian government to follow in the footsteps of the European Union (EU) and cease screen scraping. "I ...

For more than a decade, screen scraping has been the traditional method for moving bank transaction data into an app like Mint. But the technique, which involves a computer attempting to read and ...

Yodlee Inc., the screen-scraping pioneer, is courting controversy again, with a service that will enable account aggregators to mine customer account data from rival companies. Until now, aggregators ...

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Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said warnings to consumers from banks over the use of screen scraping are not designed to lower competition in the local market, and are ...

Yesterday November 27, the European Commission published the final version of the long awaited PSD2 Regulatory Technical Standards on Secure Communications and Secure Customer Authentication. The SCA ...

The Irish airline, Europe's largest by passenger numbers, said the ruling would help end unauthorised screen scraping by booking sites. Booking.com said it was disappointed with the decisions and ...