I've got a theory that in 2018, most people or companies can use web scraping tools to make some aspect of their lives easier.<p>For example, I wrote a script a few months back to scrape transit data and send me a text when the subway is delayed for my morning commute. Maybe you're helping your company scrape competitor prices to know when they change?<p>So - are you scraping data today? As part of a hobby project or for professional purposes? What do you use it for? And if you don't, why not?
I do scrape. We are making a sort of meta-search engine for long term car rental, so to bootstrap it we are scraping offer from various sites and directing users to the original websites to actually go through with the offer.<p>If anyone is interested in more detail, I can explain further.