screen-scrape
screen-scrape verb: to extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
Verb
screen-scrape (third-person singular simple present screen-scrapes, present participle screen-scraping, simple past and past participle screen-scraped)
- 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
Forms of screen-scrape
| third-person singular present | screen-scrapes |
|---|---|
| present participle | screen-scraping |
| past participle | screen-scraped |
| past | screen-scraped |
Questions about screen-scrape
- What does screen-scrape mean?
- Screen-scrape means to extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
- What part of speech is screen-scrape?
- Screen-scrape is a verb.
- What is the past tense of screen-scrape?
- The past tense of screen-scrape is screen-scraped.
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