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web scraping

web scraping noun: the scraping of data from websites.

Noun

web scraping

  1. The scraping of data from websites
    Synonyms:
    web harvesting

Synonyms of web scraping

Forms of web scraping

alternative formWeb scraping

Questions about web scraping

What does web scraping mean?
Web scraping means the scraping of data from websites.
What part of speech is web scraping?
Web scraping is a noun.

Words near web scraping in the dictionary

  1. web page
  2. web pages
  3. web provider
  4. Web robot
  5. Web robots
  6. web scraping
  7. Web scutter
  8. Web scutters
  9. web series
  10. web server
  11. web servers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: web 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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