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Web Scraping

Number 3257
Subject Computers
Source Brad Heath
State USA Today (McLean, Va.)
Year 2009
Publication Date 2009 IRE Conference (Baltimore, Md.)
Summary Heath details web scraping. "'Scraping' means extracting data from websites. Thing about any site that lets you search a data set. How much better would it be if you could get the whole thing?" Heath explores the benefits and reasons for scraping, and what tools you'll need to accomplish the task.
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