bonner's definitions

brute forcing

Overloading a system or method. The act of accomplishing something difficult by brute forcing existing systems.

Create a bot to screen scrape web sites and populate a database with the harvested information. The information is then obtained by brute forcing the concept of getting info on the web.

by bonner June 29, 2006

screen scrape

To get data from a screen like a web page or mainframe (green screen) using a program. The program must parse the web page source (HTML) and look for hints, like field label tags. For mainframes is much easier since the screen is just a flat ASCII string.

Screen scrape eBay or Amazon pages and collect product offerings and prices.

by bonner June 29, 2006