Syndication How to use Python and Selenium to scrape websites July 22, 2020 - 11:00 am Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born.

In this Nylon Calculus 101 post, Savvas Tjortjoglou introduces web scraping with Python to grab data for all draftees from the 1966 to 2014 NBA drafts.

When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

Web scraping is usually only a first step towards extracting meaningful data. Once you’ve got everything pulled down, you’ve still got to process it into something useful.