screen-scrape
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
- 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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- 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: