inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceblog.curiousquail.comexternal-linkmessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up11.25Karrow-down17
arrow-up11.24Karrow-down1external-linkAaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceblog.curiousquail.cominari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square61linkfedilink
minus-squarehelvetpuli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months 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-up1·2 months 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.
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.