data scraping

English

Noun

data scraping (countable and uncountable, plural data scrapings)

  1. (computing, uncountable) A technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.
  2. (computing, countable) An application of this technique.
    • 2019, Jack Lord, “Corporate Ownership”, in Tim Davies et al., editors, The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, →ISBN, page 57:
      OpenCorporates collects corporate data from public open data sources, official APIs, and data scrapings, and transforms it all into a standard form.

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