"screen-scrape" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "screen-scrapes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "screen-scraping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "screen-scraped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "screen-scraped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "screen-scrape (third-person singular simple present screen-scrapes, present participle screen-scraping, simple past and past participle screen-scraped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Kim Topley, Java Web Services in a Nutshell:",
          "text": "Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kevin Strange, C. Elegans: Methods and Applications:",
          "text": "Often it is simpler to screen-scrape this data rather than trying to recreate the logic of a script using programmatic interfaces to the database.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Raymond Yee, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services:",
          "text": "Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content."
      ],
      "id": "en-screen-scrape-en-verb-njOWT3kG",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "extract",
          "extract"
        ],
        [
          "webpage",
          "webpage"
        ],
        [
          "human-readable",
          "human-readable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, computing) To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "screen-scrape"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "screen-scrapes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "screen-scraping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "screen-scraped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "screen-scraped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "screen-scrape (third-person singular simple present screen-scrapes, present participle screen-scraping, simple past and past participle screen-scraped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Kim Topley, Java Web Services in a Nutshell:",
          "text": "Screen-scraping programs, by their nature, are very reliant on the layout of the information source that they are analyzing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kevin Strange, C. Elegans: Methods and Applications:",
          "text": "Often it is simpler to screen-scrape this data rather than trying to recreate the logic of a script using programmatic interfaces to the database.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Raymond Yee, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services:",
          "text": "Or you could go to the other extreme and screen-scrape the site at will.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "extract",
          "extract"
        ],
        [
          "webpage",
          "webpage"
        ],
        [
          "human-readable",
          "human-readable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, computing) To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "screen-scrape"
}