Screen-scrape

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content. transitive

    "Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing."

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"Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing."

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