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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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Unlike screen scraping for context or fixed ad positions required by many traditional ad providers, FeedBurner uses valuable context available only via the feed to determine the selection and positioning of an advertisement on a Web page.
Billeo works without any data aggregation or screen scraping.
NET, enabling modern Web services and SOA while negating the need for short-term, disposable approaches such as screen scraping and Web facing.
 
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