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- verb transitive (
computing ) Toextract data from (a source such as awebpage ) by picking it out from among thehuman-readable content.
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We're doing lots of collections online projects, some of these have ended up being silos - sometimes to the extent if we want to get data out of them, we have to screen-scrape our own data.
Archive 2009-02-01 Mia 2009
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We're doing lots of collections online projects, some of these have ended up being silos - sometimes to the extent if we want to get data out of them, we have to screen-scrape our own data.
Happy developers + happy museums = happy punters (my JISC dev8D talk) Mia 2009
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If an application developer or content editor can't find information from trusted sources that fits the format required for their application, they'll use whatever they can find on other encyclopaedic repositories, hack federated searches, or they'll screen-scrape our data and generate their own set of entities (authority records) and object records.
Archive 2008-05-01 Mia 2008
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If an application developer or content editor can't find information from trusted sources that fits the format required for their application, they'll use whatever they can find on other encyclopaedic repositories, hack federated searches, or they'll screen-scrape our data and generate their own set of entities (authority records) and object records.
Some ideas for location-linked cultural heritage projects Mia 2008
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In theory, I could screen-scrape submitted games for metadata and auto-generate a list of new attributes for each item in our database, but displaying that in user-friendly way becomes very hard.
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A developer wrote a PERL module to screen-scrape and export subscriber movie ratings from the site.
Rise of the Netflix Hackers Dave Demerjian 2007
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A developer wrote a PERL module to screen-scrape and export subscriber movie ratings from the site.
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Another example of the use of XSLT is to screen-scrape an XHTML page and distribute that content to an RSS or Atom Syndication Format (ASF) feed.
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Another example of the use of XSLT is to screen-scrape an XHTML page and distribute that content to an RSS or Atom Syndication Format (ASF) feed.
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Your app would then collect inputs, submit requests, and screen-scrape the results to your liking.
ASP.NET Forums 2009
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