How Web Scraping Is Revealing Lobbying and Corruption in Peru
Really interesting use of data extraction....<p>For developers and managers out there, do you prefer to build your own in-house scrapers or use Scrapy or tools like Mozenda instead? What about import.io and kimono?<p>I'm asking because lot of developers seem to be adamant against using web scraping tools they didn't develop themselves. Which seems counter productive because you are going into technical debt for an already solved problem.<p>So developers, what is the perfect web scraping tool you envision?<p>And it's always a fine balance between people who want to scrape Linkedin to spam people, others looking to do good with the data they scrape, and website owners who get aggressive and threatening when they realize they are getting scraped.<p>It seems like web scraping is a really shitty business to be in and nobody really wants to pay for it.