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Thus I would expect the task to describe the fetching and parsing of a web page, in HTML form ... with a subsequent encoding of selected results into a new query (and/or posted form). This would give a far more realistic example of what "web scraping" means to most people who would employ the phrase. [[User:JimD|JimD]] 23:00, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
:Hi Jim,
:I have read your criticism, and looked at the introduction of the definition of web scraping [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping here]. It seems we disagree on the size of example appropriate to R.C. but not really on what web scraping is. If you have a larger example then the central idea of extracting data from a live web page may be lost in the details of how the data is extracted from HTML, or what is done subsequently with that data. A lot of the tasks on R.C. are small and I thought this would fit that mould.
:You could always add a separate task involving extracting data from HTML files? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 12:56, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
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