Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database. You can pull the data directly into ...

Web-scraping is essentially the task of finding out what input a website expects and understanding the format of its response. For example, Recovery.gov takes a user’s zip code as input before ...

Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext ...

Connections from web pages and applications to databases are an important aspect of providing dynamic content to users. Web Services strives to maintain the integrity of its web servers and all ...

Gunja Gargeshwari is the Chief Revenue Officer for Bright Data, an industry-leading web data platform used by many Fortune 500 companies. Public web data is the driving force behind a complete ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

Public web data is crucial for ecommerce businesses to track competitors, stay on top of consumer trends and make smarter, industry-specific decisions. With web scraping approaches tailored to their ...

When Ensheng Dong co-created the Johns Hopkins University COVID‑19 Dashboard in January 2020, it was a labour of love. Dong, a systems engineer at the university in Baltimore, Maryland, had friends ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...