Need to extract data from website and push to a program
Well you should probably start by learning the language in general it would make it alot easier to do
but for the Web stuff you can use something called urllib and urllib2 these can open up the browser to get the data without actually opening the window 
also there are a few automated web browsers like selenium which actually opens the window 
there are many others you can look through on the internet 
but that's only the web browser automation then you have to actually obtain the information and data you want for this you need something like scrapy like you said or beautifulsoup these go through the source code and pick out the information you want
since i don't exactly know what you want its kind of hard to explain but i hope this gives you somewhere to start 
but like i said you should probably learn basic python and that would help alot 
I hope this helps!!
So i've been looking around trying to figure out how i could extract some specific data such as just the text, and push that data into a program that organizes the data. 
So if you took homedepot.com for example and wanted to extract from each item listed under "2x4 wood" and from each item you are needing to grab the name, the description, and the specifications and import that data into a piece of software that contains this data? 
So I guess that would be something like an automated data entry? 
From what I've researched I'd need to write a crawler program that is designed to search a specific term and then crawl each and every page that the result returns and grab the data that I need. 
However I have a bit of a problem: I don't really know any programming/scripting and am unsure where to start. I found something called Scrapy which is based off of Python. Is this what I want to use for the crawler? 
The next issue I have is the fact that I have no clue on how to now import the data gathered into the software? Any tips on where I should look to find this answer?
I want to use this idea that I have to help me learn how to script.