data scraping
Web content extraction
Data scraping is the automated extraction of information from websites or other digital sources.
Software tools harvest content—prices, contact details, product listings—that would be tedious to collect manually.
The practice occupies a legal gray area: scraping public data is generally permitted, but violating terms of service or accessing protected content raises legal concerns.
They scraped competitor pricing data to adjust their own rates.
Something that inches along
- botAutomated software agent
- seleniumElement number thirty-four
- puppeteerPerformer controlling jointed figures
- pythonNonvenomous squeezing snake
script · parse · extract · pagination · regex · request · response · dom
Gathering mature crops
- extractionAct of removing
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- aggregationCombined collection of items
datasets · database · export · archiving · indexing · caching · corpus · repository
crawler
Something that inches along
- botAutomated software agent
- seleniumElement number thirty-four
- puppeteerPerformer controlling jointed figures
python · script · parse · extract · pagination · regex · request · response · dom
harvesting
Gathering mature crops
- extractionAct of removing
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
- miningExtracting earth's resources
aggregation · datasets · database · export · archiving · indexing · caching · corpus · repository
- cyber threatsmalware, phishing, hacking, virus, ransomware
- privacy violationsinvasion of privacy, privacy invasion, privacy breach, eavesdropping, identity theft
- OSINTgeolocation, reverse image search, public records, digital footprint, IP tracking
- web researchweb crawling, online surveys, internet research, web analytics, web search
- web scrapingspider, spiders, crawlers, harvester, Selenium
- surface removalsanding, grinding, abrasion, exfoliation, rasping