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scraping

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(1) Extracting data from output intended for the screen or printer rather than from original files or databases. For example, Web pages formatted in HTML are often scraped. Scraping is a way to obtain data without having access to the formats and databases the data are naturally stored in. With Web sites and search engines, an enormous amount of data can be brought to the user's screen and captured. See screen scraping.

(2) Extracting e-mail addresses or other data from a large Web site or search engine. Bots are used to cull the data, which may be reorganized and presented in a unique manner that attracts visitors, the purpose of which is to make money on ads. The data might also be used for nefarious reasons, such as selling the information to spammers and cybercriminals.



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A third time it struck, gently as it had before, but the contact resulted in a different sound--the sound of wood scraping upon wood.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
is raised, and some long mistake, some complicated edifice of self-delusion, over- confidence, and wrong reasoning is brought down in a fatal shock, and the heart-searing experience of your ship's keel scraping and scrunching over, say, a coral reef.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
I should say that those New England rocks on the sea-coast, which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks of violent scraping contact with vast floating icebergs --I should say, that those rocks must not a little resemble the Sperm Whale in this particular.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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