Data Scraping

What Does Data Scraping Mean?

Data scraping is commonly defined as a system where a technology extracts data from a particular codebase or program. Data scraping provides results for a variety of uses and automates aspects of data aggregation.

Techopedia Explains Data Scraping

There are many ways that businesses use data scraping to their advantage. In almost any case where there is a large body of information, data scraping can function as a way of collecting this data and getting it into useful formats. For instance, in a variant of data scraping called web scraping, a company may take an enormous volume of information from a document or file and format it into an Excel spreadsheet for later use. For example, if there are thousands of real estate listings on the website, a real estate company could scrape that data from the web and get it into a useful format for outreach or classification purposes.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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