# web scraping tools

[Web scraping tools, services, and plugins: a comprehensive list](http://curation.masternewmedia.org/p/4004713694/web-scraping-tools-services-and-plugins-a-comprehensive-list)

[Ruby project called Upton](https://github.com/propublica/upton) – haven’t tried it yet but it’s from the [Tumblr blog Onethingwell](http://onethingwell.org/) whose picks tend to be OK.

[10 Web Scraping Tools to Extract Online Data](http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/web-scraping-tools/) – *added April 2016. Includes use case examples.*

[To Scrape or Not to Scrape: Technical and Ethical Challenges of Collecting Data off the Web](http://www.storybench.org/to-scrape-or-not-to-scrape-the-technical-and-ethical-challenges-of-collecting-data-off-the-web/) – *April 4, 2016*