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Originally Posted by fotze
What does that mean?
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Screen scraping is basically writing a program that views a webpage just like a person would, and records all the relevant data on the page.
Basically a way to get all the data on a site without having access to the data.
Some sites disallow it in their terms of service, but I don't know if that's even enforceable.
I wonder if rentfaster.ca actually does anything with their data, maybe we should ask them to create some reports.