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screen scraping

screen scraping noun: a form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.

Noun

screen scraping

  1. A form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.

Questions about screen scraping

What does screen scraping mean?
Screen scraping means a form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.
What part of speech is screen scraping?
Screen scraping is a noun.

Words near screen scraping in the dictionary

  1. screen protectors
  2. screen reader
  3. screen readers
  4. screen saver
  5. screen savers
  6. screen scraping
  7. screen share
  8. screen shared
  9. screen shares
  10. screen sharing
  11. screen tearing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screen scraping (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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