A slang verb, to screenscrape.

Screenscraping is a way of extracting data from a web page. It's based
on parsing the HTML code of the page and extracting the required data
using string parsing.

It is intrinsically more unreliable than an [XML] or [RSS] feed, since
your code is more likely to break if the webpage's formating or content changes.

See wikipedia -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenscraping

This technique is often used for mashups (see wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29).


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