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kurrent on Aug 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?

Sports scores, statistics, etc are always high in demand for scraping and great to get people interested when learning scraping techniques.

jeffclark on Aug 11, 2014 [–]

Yeah, very much agreed. I have to scrape schedules together to populate games for my ticket site (http://www.boxrowseat.com).

The popular sites are wising up to scraping of information, so it's really an exercise in futility. But when it works, it's super rewarding.

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