# Scraping Web Data

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scraping-web-data/15834>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [November 1, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scraping-web-data/15834 "2017-11-01T00:15:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![afarzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@afarzin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/afarzin)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scraping-web-data/15834/1 "2017-11-01T00:15:59Z")

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What is the best/good way to scrape data from a web site and make it available as a tag in the system? My particular application is importing data from a weather station system that does not have any kind of OPC/Modbus feature. It is designed to either display it locally on a PC with a proprietary application, or to export the data to the cloud where users can login and view their local stations data. What I would like to do is have the data available as OPC tags for alarming/etc.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scraping-web-data/15834/2 "2017-11-01T01:23:56Z")

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Write the scraping logic in a timer script that periodically updates a memory tag.