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minus-squarehelvetpuli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoSure. Fine. It means all of that now. But what are we going to call the difficult thing that we have to do to coax, say, unstructured event listings into reasonably structured data?
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIf you want to refer specifically to web scraping then call it “web scraping” or “site scraping” or “HTML scraping” Not difficult to get your meaning across.
Sure. Fine. It means all of that now.
But what are we going to call the difficult thing that we have to do to coax, say, unstructured event listings into reasonably structured data?
If you want to refer specifically to web scraping then call it “web scraping” or “site scraping” or “HTML scraping”
Not difficult to get your meaning across.