> > >> Some @(*#$ idiot decided to write his own scraper and generated [so] > >> many errors that the log partition ran full. > > > As English is not my mother tounge, I even ran "scraper" through a > > dictionary. [...] > > Here, "scraper" means an automated piece of software to gather up > something from somewhere - usually, email addresses from webpages. > (Why the name, I'm not sure. Perhaps derived from "scrape together", > meaning approximately "gather", but with a connotation of difficulty; > perhaps derived from the image of scraping something off something > else, the way you might scrape frost off a window, or dried food off a > stove.) > When its relating to webpages, the entire term is "screen scraping". Your pulling up the web page as if it was a user, and "scraping" the data you need off it. I do this constantly with programs that go out, pull up a web page as if it was a user, pluck data depending on formatting or search strings, and then does other processing locally with it. I've found it very effective on dating and job websites. ;)
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