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Screen scraping is taking visual data and transforming it into structure data. A screen scraper would graphically capture a window and try to identify or pick
by runningdogx 15y ago
Screen scraping is taking visual data and transforming it into structure data. A screen scraper would graphically capture a window and try to identify or pick out data. Bots for MMOs tend to do that, alnong with providing input to the MMO depending on what they "see".
Web or data scraping is what the article talks about. Still a hard problem, easily broken by minor changes to the scraped webpage, but not subject to the vagaries of OCR and computer vision or graphical interpretation problems, which is what I was expecting from the title.
- icandoitbetter 15y agoSpeaking of screen scraping, can someone recommend good libraries for accessing information on GUI widgets with integrated OCR capabilities?
- joshu 15y agoThe original screen scraping was in the context of emulating a 3270 terminal as an "API" into some system running on a mainframe. I worked at a place that allowed web-based trading in the mid 90s by wrapping a web server (on a sun spark 10) around a single emulated terminal running on a SCO box. It was called screen scraping then, too :)