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screen scraping is a bot that pulls the visual data from the screen and analyzes it. A bunch of tutorials talk about web scraping and call it screen scraping A
by extension 16y ago
screen scraping is a bot that pulls the visual data from the screen and analyzes it. A bunch of tutorials talk about web scraping and call it screen scraping
A more useful definition would be "extracting structured data from human interfaces"
- keefe 16y agoexcept it seems to imply pulling data from interfaces other than the screen, so screen scraping is a subset of ui scraping. I still see this as distinct from scraping data from web pages, because that's basically an entity extraction problem which lies underneath the ui scraping problem.