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.

Hyponyms

• web scraping