screen-scrape

verb

To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.

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Meanings

verbscreen-scrape (third-person singular simple present screen-scrapes, present participle screen-scraping, simple past and past participle screen-scraped)

present singular third person screen-scrapes · participle present screen-scraping · participle past screen-scraped · past screen-scraped

  1. transitivecomputingTo extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.

    Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will.

    2008, Raymond Yee, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services
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    Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing.

    2003, Kim Topley, Java Web Services in a Nutshell

    Often it is simpler to screen-scrape this data rather than trying to recreate the logic of a script using programmatic interfaces to the database.

    2006, Kevin Strange, C. Elegans: Methods and Applications
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