To be sure, screen scraping — which allows data aggregators to pretend to be an online banking customer in order to gain account entry — has been necessary with banks widely refusing direct access for ...

Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of ...

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 ...

The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

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As the industry works to improve the way online banking information is shared with personal financial management apps, a debate is brewing over whether to end the decades-old practice of screen ...

When American Airlines sued Farechase, Inc. in Federal District Court in Texas earlier this year, claiming that Farechase's “screen-scraping” of AA's flight information from AA.com was illegal, it was ...