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screen-scraping

screen-scraping is the present participle and gerund 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-scraping

What is screen-scraping the present participle and gerund of?
Screen-scraping is the present participle and gerund of screen-scrape.

Words near screen-scraping in the dictionary

  1. screen-scrape
  2. screen-scraped
  3. screen-scraper
  4. screen-scrapers
  5. screen-scrapes
  6. screen-scraping
  7. screen-used
  8. screenable
  9. screenables
  10. screenage
  11. screenager

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screen-scraping (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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