What is Screen Scraping? The easiest way to get data from another program is to use a dedicated API (Application Programming Interface), but not all programs provide one. In fact, most programs don't. If there's no API provided, you can still get data from a program by using screen scraping, which is the process of capturing data from the screen output of a program. This can take all kinds of forms, ranging from parsing terminal output to reading text off screenshots, with the most common bei...
