During the session on data scraping, this repo was mentioned as a case study:
http://github.com/vicapow/water-supply/
specificially, this scraping file: https://github.com/vicapow/water-supply/blob/master/scrappers/reservoirs.js
@jeremiak also mentioned this incredible technique for scraping website data using Google Spreadsheets.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/import-html-in-google-docs/28125/