WebScraping

Overview

Like most programming languages, Python provides a wealth of tools for scraping data off the web. Below are some resources to help get you started.

WebScraping101 - a series of basic web scrapes that demonstrate basic Python syntax
ScraperWiki contains tuts, sample code, and even lets you ask others to write a scraper for you (though why would we ever do that, right?)
An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping, by Will Larson. This is a very good intro to scraping sites in a responsible way.
Python Recipe: Grab page, scrape table, download file, by Ben Welsh