Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by andrewpe 3759 days ago
What do you mean scraping?
2 comments
runarb 3759 days ago
> What do you mean scraping?

Web scraping. It is the process of using software to automaticly extract information from websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

link
moreati 3759 days ago
Almost certainly they mean web scraping - making automated requests to websites and extracting/parsing data. It's used for e.g. getting prices/specifications of entire product catalog, or for duplicating a database that's only published in HTML.
link