Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. Usually, such software programs simulate human exploration of the World Wide Web by either implementing low-level Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or embedding a fully-fledged web browser, such as Internet Explorer or M...
Process of obtaining HTML content from a web server, usually for conversion to another format e.g. WML.
Automated process of finding content on web pages and converting it into another form for use on another web site.
Software which trawls web sites for content it can copy to its own site.
See Data Scraping