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Re:Youtube-dl is possibly dead by simonw on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:22PM (#28296682)
"We need a word to describe scraping data values from a body of human-oriented markup"

I call that parsing, which is one of the steps in scraping that may or not be necessary depending on the data source.

I need a term that means "using automation to gather data from the web, when that data has not been published in a way that is suitable for my purposes". Scraping works great for that!

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