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screenscrape

screenscrape is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of screenscrape

third-person singular presentscreenscrapes
present participlescreenscraping
past participlescreenscraped
pastscreenscraped

Questions about screenscrape

What is screenscrape the alternative spelling of?
Screenscrape is the alternative spelling of screen-scrape.

Words near screenscrape in the dictionary

  1. screensaver
  2. screensavers
  3. screensavery
  4. screenscape
  5. screenscapes
  6. screenscrape
  7. screenscraped
  8. screenscrapes
  9. screenscraping
  10. screensful
  11. screenshare

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screenscrape (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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