What does screen-scrape mean?

screen-scrape

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

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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."
"Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will."

screen-scrapes (present, singular) screen-scraping (participle, present) screen-scraped (participle, past) screen-scraped (past)

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