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Definition: Web scraping


Extracting all or part of the data on a website. For example, a bot may scrape the Web for email addresses in order to build up a mailing list. Google, Bing and other search engine crawlers scrape the Web all day long in order to derive the latest information to show on results pages. See crawler and screen scraper.