Web scraping

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or a web browser.

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