Scraper

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Scraper means:

in construction
  • Granier steel or rocking iron, a tool for processing copperplate engravings
  • Motor scrapers or scrapers, a heavy construction machine for moving earth
in computer science
  • Screen scraping , a process for reading out texts and data from computer screens or websites (hence also web scraping)
  • A data scraper is a computer program that collects data from various sources and makes it available centrally.
  • A log scraper collects log files from different computers in a network.
  • A scraper site is a website or blog that copies the content of other websites, blogs or feeds. Usually nothing is created on a scraper page itself.

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