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Web scraping is the process of automatically mining data or collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, semantic understanding, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.
OutWit Hub is a Web data extraction software application designed to automatically extract information from online or local resources. It recognizes and grabs links, images, documents, contacts, recurring vocabulary and phrases, rss feeds and converts structured and unstructured data into formatted tables which can be exported to spreadsheets or databases.
Scrapy (/ ˈ s k r eɪ p aɪ / [2] SKRAY-peye) is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. [3] It is currently maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), a web-scraping development and services company.
A screen fragment and a screen-scraping interface (blue box with red arrow) to customize data capture process. Although the use of physical "dumb terminal" IBM 3270s is slowly diminishing, as more and more mainframe applications acquire Web interfaces, some Web applications merely continue to use the technique of screen scraping to capture old screens and transfer the data to modern front-ends.
Technically, these functions are distributed on web sites by embedding the imacro and the controlling JavaScript inside a plain text link. [ 17 ] Along with the freeware version, iMacros is available as a proprietary commercial application, [ 3 ] with additional features and support for web scripting , web scraping , internet server monitoring ...
Data Toolbar is a Web scraping computer software add-on to the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome Web browsers that collects and converts the structured data from Web pages into a tabular format that can be loaded into a spreadsheet or database management program.
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A Google search result embedding content taken from a Wikipedia article. Search engines such as Google could be considered a type of scraper site. Search engines gather content from other websites, save it in their own databases, index it and present the scraped content to the search engines' own users.