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scraper

1 6.6

A program that automatically collects data from websites by reading their pages

noun
/ˈskreɪpər/

Texting

: programa de extracción

Now, many of these URLs are scrapers that just reprinted my post, but if we filter the query a bit by adding "RT," it looks like 8 URLs in the index.

Examples

I get the scraper!

Walking Tall (1973)
We can write basically a a scraper for Mediawiki sites that extracts the the right metadata.
source code of my scraper API

Blog text (14)
Data scraper, two agents and the in-house shrink.

Black Bag (2025)
I needed a scraper.

Contraband (2012)
According to Google, this update aimed at penalizing scraper or duplicate content sites.

Blog text (22)
A web scraper is designed to collect specific data from various websites efficiently.
With the scraper in place, we can easily gather product prices from different online stores.
He developed a scraper that fetches weather information from multiple sources to display on his app.

Synonyms

harvester

vsscraper

Specialized

1 6.8

A program that automatically gathers large amounts of data from many websites

focuses on extracting specific structured data by parsing pages or APIs

extractor

vsscraper

Specialized

1 6.1

A computer program that finds useful data in web pages or documents

is limited to gathering data from websites by downloading and parsing pages or APIs

Compounds

gut-scraper

Slang

9.9

A very strong, scary experience that tests your courage

How Sophisticated

data grid

Specialized

5.6

scraper

Texting

1 6.6

script

Specialized

70 3.6

Surface Forms

scraper singular

scrapers plural

Morphology

scraper = scrape (semi-transparent) = scrape + er

Morphologically transparent as 'scrape' + '-er', but the computing sense is a metaphorical extension (software that 'scrapes' data) which requires domain knowledge.

Etymology

Scraper also applies to a computer program and keeps the same idea: scrape means 'to remove by rubbing', so a web scraper 'takes' information off a page in the same way a hand tool takes paint off a window.