Syndication How to use Python and Selenium to scrape websites July 22, 2020 - 11:00 am Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born.

My go-to language for web scraping is Python, as it has well-integrated libraries that can generally handle all of the functionality required. And sure enough, a Selenium library exists for Python.

It’s common for data to be presented in HTML tables — for instance, that’s how California’s Franchise Tax Board reports the top 250 taxpayers with state income tax delinquencies.