Talk:Web scraping

Blog scraping was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 27 October 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Web scraping. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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"A web scraper is an API" - is this correct?

Quote from article: "A web scraper is an Application Programming Interface (API) to [...]" But is this correct? Isn't a web scraper more than just an API? -- 194.39.218.10 (talk) 14:58, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A web scraper is generally a program. The API aspect in the article is misleading. Have removed it. Jmccormac (talk) 07:23, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]