Colleagues,
The term "screen scraping" as I am familiar with it comes from mainframe
terminal circles, and refers to capturing the character-based output in a
terminal window (or, at one point in history, the terminal "screen") as a
text file. I have seen the term used specifically in respect to file
capture from display produced by 3270 terminal emulators. Essentially, it's
as if you took the screen's display and "scraped" it off of the terminal to
make a sheet or text file.
Phil, tell us a bit more context regarding your screen scrape, and maybe
we can be of more help.
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Barry C. Hawkins
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All Things Computed
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> Richard Baskett wrote:
> >
> > I bet he means when you open up an URL and capture part of the page or
the
> > entire page and post it onto your own site. I've done that with
weather.com
> > where you capture just part of their webpage.. So basically if I wanted
to
> > know what the weather was like in Egypt, I would go to weather.com and
find
> > the URL that tells me, copy that, write a script that grabs that
information
> > from weather.com and then posts it on my site. Thus screen scraping...
> >
> > If that's not what he meant then I am in the dark also :) If so.. Then
> > there you go!
>
> Aaaaah... Page Pillaging ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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