I Don't Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit

By Zac Szewczyk on 2013/02/09 00:00:56 EST in Programming

After reading this article by Hartley Brody quite some time ago, I set out to build a web scraper designed to analyze Hacker News. And while the project remains unfinished, it is in no way a reflection upon the work that inspired me to undertake it. Hartley Brody talks about ah interesting way to capture data using a web browser and scraping rather than an API in an article well worth the read.