Technical
web scraping
Automated mass collection of web information via bots/crawlers.
Definition
The activity of automated collection—typically via bots and crawlers—of large quantities of information available on the web, with emphasis on repetitive, mass harvesting intended to compile datasets for subsequent analysis or training of AI models.
Related Terms
hybrid scraping
Combination of direct harvesting and third‑party datasets....
indirect scraping
Use of datasets created or redistributed by third parties....
direct scraping
Scraping where the harvester is also the model developer....
Scraping approaches (direct, indirect, hybrid)
Classification of how scraped data are collected and produced....
Machine Learning (ML)
A subset of AI enabling systems to learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention....