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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)
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[โ€“] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

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.