[addingnumbers]

I think the definitions you're cherry-picking are examples of the erosion of the term's specificity, We need a word to describe scraping data values from a body of human-oriented markup. These folks are pushing the limits of ambiguity to rob us of that, and our reward is yet another word that just means using any API.

What is the upside of using this word in such an oddly vague, expansive way? What happens to those of us who need to convey the original specific meaning we coined it for in the first place?

[simonw]

"We need a word to describe scraping data values from a body of human-oriented markup"

I call that parsing, which is one of the steps in scraping that may or not be necessary depending on the data source.

I need a term that means "using automation to gather data from the web, when that data has not been published in a way that is suitable for my purposes". Scraping works great for that!