Have a look at this list of tools for hacking stuff together on the fly.
A lot of the times, these tools either suffice or they serve to proove a concept. Yahoo pipes, for example is an easy way to throw together a scraper that can then be made more sophisticated when coding it for real.
I especially enjoyed the article on using Google spreadsheet to scrape wikipedia.
Enjoy.
I book marked this under “scrapable” when i found it posted on /r/programming.
Speaking of scraping, if you wanted a suggestion for a topic to blog about, i would be interested in how other people are scraping twitter search like
http://twitter.com/search?q=health+care