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screen-scrape en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
    • Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will. 2008, Raymond Yee, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services:
    • Often it is simpler to screen-scrape this data rather than trying to recreate the logic of a script using programmatic interfaces to the database. 2006, Kevin Strange, C. Elegans: Methods and Applications:
    • Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing. 2003, Kim Topley, Java Web Services in a Nutshell:

Forms

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screen-scraping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
screen-scrapes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
screen-scraped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
screen-scraped Tense=Past lexicographic