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screen-scraped

screen-scraped is the simple past and past participle of screen-scrape.

Meaning of screen-scrape

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) 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

Questions about screen-scraped

What is screen-scraped the simple past and past participle of?
Screen-scraped is the simple past and past participle of screen-scrape.

Words near screen-scraped in the dictionary

  1. screen-reader
  2. screen-readers
  3. screen-saver
  4. screen-savers
  5. screen-scrape
  6. screen-scraped
  7. screen-scraper
  8. screen-scrapers
  9. screen-scrapes
  10. screen-scraping
  11. screen-used

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screen-scraped (page history and authors); screen-scrape (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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