inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoAaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceblog.curiousquail.comexternal-linkmessage-square63linkfedilinkarrow-up11.22Karrow-down19
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minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-24 days agoScraping has multiple meanings. Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured. The commonality between them is they all have the implication that: the data harvesting is automated the data you harvest is not owned by you, and you don’t have explicit permission to use it the scope of what you harvest is broad and not targeted at retrieving specific limited pieces of data Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.
minus-squarehelvetpuli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoSure. Fine. It means all of that now. But what are we going to call the difficult thing that we have to do to coax, say, unstructured event listings into reasonably structured data?
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIf you want to refer specifically to web scraping then call it “web scraping” or “site scraping” or “HTML scraping” Not difficult to get your meaning across.
Scraping has multiple meanings.
Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured.
The commonality between them is they all have the implication that:
Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.
Sure. Fine. It means all of that now.
But what are we going to call the difficult thing that we have to do to coax, say, unstructured event listings into reasonably structured data?
If you want to refer specifically to web scraping then call it “web scraping” or “site scraping” or “HTML scraping”
Not difficult to get your meaning across.