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

Eventually he located the data feed for a tanker ship and wired his dial to display the ship’s speed. He uses a Python script to interface with the Pachube API, which is fed to his Netduino board.

There's a rush to amass as much data as possible to train AI models. Amazon is trying to scrape Microsoft's Github for some of the data it needs.