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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    Scraping has multiple meanings.

    Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured.

    The commonality between them is they all have the implication that:

    • the data harvesting is automated
    • the data you harvest is not owned by you, and you don’t have explicit permission to use it
    • the scope of what you harvest is broad and not targeted at retrieving specific limited pieces of data

    Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.

    • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      Sure. Fine. It means all of that now.

      But what are we going to call the difficult thing that we have to do to coax, say, unstructured event listings into reasonably structured data?

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        If you want to refer specifically to web scraping then call it “web scraping” or “site scraping” or “HTML scraping”

        Not difficult to get your meaning across.