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Sometimes screen scraping is referred to as web parsing. To parse basically means to split it up based on some kind of delimiter, which is something that screen-scraper does very well. Essentially screen-scraper can act as a web page parser, finding certain data based on some constraints given to it, whether the data is for gathering product or contact information, doing market research, or otherwise.
screen-scraper can be configured to capture data from web pages as it parses through them, downloading that information to a file, spreadsheet, or database. Once data has been extracted from web pages you can then have it searched, filtered, and analyzed.
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