Meaning of screen-scrape | Babel Free

Definitions

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

transitive

Examples

“Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing.”

“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.”

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

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