What's the name of this technique?

[Joe Snodgrass]

What's the name of the programming technique where you write a code
that goes to someone else's website, issues commands and retrieves the
responses, through the interface that people use to surf the site?

TIA

 

[Lew]

What's the name of the programming technique where you write a code
that goes to someone else's website, issues commands and retrieves the
responses, through the interface that people use to surf the site?

"Violation of the Terms of Service".


Seriously, it's called "screen scraping", and it doesn't have to be
someone else's web site or even a web site.

 

[markspace]

What's the name of the programming technique where you write a code
that goes to someone else's website, issues commands and retrieves the
responses, through the interface that people use to surf the site?

Screen scraping
Web Crawling
Spider
Robot

Would all be appropriate names for such a program. C.f. "robots.txt"
file for a website, to keep automated robots pointed where they're
supposed to go, as well as the sitemap.xml file for the opposite effect.

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

Screen scraping
Web Crawling
Spider
Robot

Would all be appropriate names for such a program. C.f. "robots.txt"
file for a website, to keep automated robots pointed where they're
supposed to go, as well as the sitemap.xml file for the opposite
effect.

Call me a bit of a pedant, but I simply call this technique "browsing".
Because he just described what IE and Safari and FF and Chrome and Opera
do...

AHS

 

[markspace]

Call me a bit of a pedant, but I simply call this technique "browsing".
Because he just described what IE and Safari and FF and Chrome and Opera
do...

Well, I think he's asking for an automated tool, not an interactive one.
I wouldn't call the automated tool a "browser," that implies an
interactive tool. Whether you're browsing the web or inspecting objects
on the heap, it's "browsing" only if done interactively.

....just me being pedantic also.... ;-)

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Well, I think he's asking for an automated tool, not an interactive one.
I wouldn't call the automated tool a "browser," that implies an
interactive tool. Whether you're browsing the web or inspecting objects
on the heap, it's "browsing" only if done interactively.

I am pretty sure that was what he intended to ask for.

But he did ask for "through the interface that people use to surf the
site" !



Arne

 

[David Lamb]

Well, I think he's asking for an automated tool, not an interactive one.
I wouldn't call the automated tool a "browser," that implies an
interactive tool.

...just me being pedantic also.... ;-)

Yeah -- it's more like a library's taking of inventory than a patron
"browsing" through the books.

 

[Roedy Green]

What's the name of the programming technique where you write a code
that goes to someone else's website, issues commands and retrieves the
responses, through the interface that people use to surf the site?

webscaping, screenscraping, useragent

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/screenscraping.html

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

webscaping, screenscraping, useragent

I guess 1.5 (1 correct and 1 misspelled) out of 3
is considered good enough these days ...

Arne

 

[code learner]

What's the name of the programming technique where you write a code
that goes to someone else's website, issues commands and retrieves the
responses, through the interface that people use to surf the site?

TIA

I guess you are not talking about
"cross site scripting"