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Definition: screen scraper


(1) See screen capture.

(2) Software that automatically extracts and saves data from a computer screen without user intervention. Screen scrapers have been developed for both character-based and graphics-based screens on personal computers as well as terminals to minicomputers and mainframes. A GUI-based screen scraper is sometimes called "frontware." See scraping.