In this Nylon Calculus 101 post, Savvas Tjortjoglou introduces web scraping with Python to grab data for all draftees from the 1966 to 2014 NBA drafts.

Welcome to a new tutorial series on Beautiful Soup 4! Beautiful Soup 4 is a web scraping module that allows you to get information from HTML documents and modify them as well.

Dollars for Docs Data Guide: A tutorial on scraping HTML from websites.

R does too — a new package called rvest by Hadley Wickham, modeled after Python’s Beautiful Soup. Watch how easy it is to import data from a Web page into R. Code from the video is below.