Screen-scrape

"Screen-scrape" in a Sentence (3 examples)

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

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.

Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will.

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