Is this site scrapping

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by dshah, Sep 5, 2005.

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    okay, I am doing this for a search engine (one of my clients). There is huge list of URLs and I need to grab summary of 200 chars from the core section of it.

    All URLs are like encyclopedia, so the pages have same template, well 80% of times. I needed to manually find out the way to extract core content.

    Is this called site scrapping?
     
    dshah, Sep 5, 2005 IP
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    Site scrapping is taking data from a website, either through automated means like writing scripts or by manully copying. estentially scrapping means data extraction from a webpage.
     
    links_mngr, Sep 5, 2005 IP
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    Yeah, if you're taking content from one site and putting it on yours, that's scraping.
     
    sgtsloth, Sep 5, 2005 IP