Screen Scrape

What is Screen Scrape?

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To get data from a screen like a web page or mainframe ( green screen) using a program. The program must parse the web page source ( HTML) and look for hints, like field label tags. For mainframes is much easier since the screen is just a flat ASCIIstring.

Screen scrape eBay or Amazon pages and collect product offerings and prices.

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