!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] (or [Screen Scraping]) is a technique in which a computer program extracts [data] from human-readable output coming from another program without the use of an [Application Programming Interface] ([API]) or [Software Development Kit] ([SDK]).

[{$pagename}] is distinguished from regular parsing as the output being obtained was intended for display to an end-user, rather than as input to another program, and is therefore usually neither documented nor structured for convenient parsing. 

[{$pagename}] often involves ignoring [binary] data (usually images or multimedia data), display formatting, redundant labels, superfluous commentary, and other information which is either irrelevant or hinders automated processing.

[{$pagename}] is subject to failure if the screen output changes.

[{$pagename}] is often part of a [Data Extraction Transformation] process.

!! [Web scraping]
[Web scraping] is [{$pagename}] used for extracting [data] from [websites].

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* [#1] - [Data_scraping|Wikipedia:Data_scraping|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-12-08