Scraping (data)

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Data scraping is a technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.

In practice

An example is web pages that are typically built using text-based mark-up languages (HTML), and frequently contain a wealth of useful data in text form. However, most web pages are designed for human end-users and not for ease of automated use. With a web scraper, this information can be turned into a more organized form, see structured dat

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A collection of data so large that it cannot be stored, transmitted or processed using traditional computing techniques and requires specialized tools and methods.

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CSV

CSV or Comma-separated values, is a standard format for spreadsheet data. Data values are separated by commas and each row represents a record.