Python has this very powerful library Scrapy. This will be more than powerful for most of the cases. I have tried scraping quotes from GoodReads and LifeHack my Quoted App

I am a newbie in web scraping and I am using python ... cannot give you a recommendation based on my experience but from searching the internet python is widely used for this purpose You can use 'requests' module as a basic quick start, 'beautifulsoup' module for parsing the output Then move to Scrapy

I would use Python or something done using JavaScript.

For us "old school" php developers is PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Works pretty damn good, too. Soon, I'll use it to loop through blog posts and such and move any and all images from 1 CDN to another in a host migration.