inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceblog.curiousquail.comexternal-linkmessage-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceblog.curiousquail.cominari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square57linkfedilink
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoScraping has multiple connotations. Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured. The commonality between them is they all have the implication that: the data harvesting is automated the data you harvest is not owned by you, and you don’t have explicit permission to use it the scope of what you harvest is broad and not targeted at retrieving specific limited pieces of data Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.
minus-squarehelvetpuli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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?
Scraping has multiple connotations.
Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured.
The commonality between them is they all have the implication that:
Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.
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?