Verb
To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
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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.
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Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will.