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I can't seem to find a reason why "screen scraping" is important here, as oppose to just scraping? My understanding is that screen scraping is taking a picture
by yuy910616 5y ago
I can't seem to find a reason why "screen scraping" is important here, as oppose to just scraping?
My understanding is that screen scraping is taking a picture of the rendered website and using an OCR or some other sort of recognition tools to extract the data.
If it is just scraping - it should be perfectly legal right?
- whatshisface 5y agoIt's against their ToS. The court is trying to decide what kind of a contract a ToS is. This will have implications for anyone writing software covered under a ToS... and anyone using it.
- GordonS 5y agoScreen scraping isn't exclusively about using OCR - it more usually means parsing text content from HTML.
- TameAntelope 5y agoWhat's the "screen" part of this, though? I guess if you have to render the page fully (execute the JS as well), rather than just parse the returned HTML, that to me is more "screen scraping" vs. "scraping".
- GordonS 5y agoNo idea where the name came from!
- paxys 5y agoWho says it is? This is about copying alleged proprietary and copyrighted content from a website. The technique used isn't really relevant.