Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Screen-scraping refers, I believe, to the process of identifying what is > onscreen in GUI programs, possibly even at the pixel level, and trying > to translate that back into a higher level model (e.g. text in fields) > of what is going on. > > Web-scraping, on the other hand, generally doesn't need to involve the > graphic representation of anything, and can work at the level of HTML, > XML, and ... XPath. > > (Disclaimer: I know these terms are not really standardized, but I think > the defacto standard definitions match what I've described fairly closely.)
Some people do seem to use "screen-scraping" to cover what you define above as "web-scraping". John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
