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scraping

scraping

2 4.5
Collecting information from many web pages using computer programs
  • noun
  • /ˈskreɪpɪŋ/
  • Texting
translation icon : extracción de datos
  • The developer used automated scripts for scraping product information from competitor websites.

They'll, they'll just start scraping things from websites that that journalists have written.

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Examples

  • I set out to explore these bands' digital social terrain beyond what Internet browsers display by leveraging software tools like web scraping.

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  • In the news segment of the show, Craver and Miller discussed Facebook's recent site scraping issue.

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  • And web scraping refers to the extraction of specific online information.

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  • Thanks for posting these resources and more details on how you picked up programming and web scraping.

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  • Web scraping refers to a set of programmatic methods used to extract targeted information from web pages.

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  • Web scraping has become an essential technique for gathering large datasets from various websites.

  • Many businesses rely on scraping to collect data for market analysis and research.

Synonyms

harvesting
vsscraping
  • Specialized
1 4.3

Automatically collecting data from websites or sensors for study

focuses specifically on extracting data from websites and online sources

How Automated

pipeline
  • Specialized
51 4.0
crawling
  • Texting
4.9
scraping
  • Texting
2 4.5
script
  • Specialized
70 3.6
collection
93 1.9

Surface Forms

scraping singular
scrapings plural

Morphology

scraping = scrape (semi-transparent) = scrape + ing

The technical sense (extracting data from websites) is a metaphorical extension of 'scrape' but the formation is regular; the domain-specific meaning may not be immediately obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Scraping for websites borrows the old idea of scrape meaning 'to take off small bits from a surface', so modern scraping is a way of taking small pieces of data from web pages for use or study.