Peter Hansen wrote: > bruce wrote: >> I'm not that familiar with Pythin, but I wasn wondering if there are any >> XPath/Python Gurus that I might be able to talk to regarding screen >> scraping >> applications... > > Since you mention XPath, it seems likely you are really interested in > *web-scraping*. > > 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.) > > -Peter > Back in the days of DOS when I first came across the term screen scraping, it meant a program that emulated a terminal like a VT100, sending keystrokes and reading from an internal screen buffer. This was very much text and character oriented.
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