data scraping
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An application of this technique.
- OpenCorporates collects corporate data from public open data sources, official APIs, and data scrapings, and transforms it all into a standard form.2019, Jack Lord, “Corporate Ownership”, in Tim Davies et al., editors, The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, →ISBN, page 57:
- Hyponyms
- web scraping