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screen scraping
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screen scraping
Acquiring data displayed on screen by capturing the text manually with the copy command or via software. Web pages are constantly being screen scraped in order to save meaningful data for later use. In order to perform scraping automatically, software must be used that is written to recognize specific data. See scraping and screen scraper.
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O'Leary urged travellers not to book airline tickets on screen-scraping and ticket-tout websites who, he claimed, add as much as 200 per cent to the price of a Ryanair ticket price.
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This technology used to be known as screen-scraping, but it has matured considerably in the last few years and works in the familiar J2EE and .
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Stage 1 - Screen-Scraping Replacing green-screen terminal emulation screens on a one-to-one basis with a graphical user interface (GUI).
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