scraping

American  

[skrey-ping] / ˈskreɪ pɪŋ /

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that scrapes.

2. the sound of something being scraped.

3. Usually scrapings. something that is scraped off, up, or together.

4. Digital Technology. the process of extracting data from a digital source for automated replication, formatting, or manipulation by a computer program, as in data mining or website data analysis: web scraping;

   screen scraping;

   web scraping;

   URL scraping.

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scraping British  

/ ˈskreɪpɪŋ /

noun

1. the act of scraping

2. a sound produced by scraping

3. (often plural) something scraped off, together, or up; a small amount

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Other Word Forms

• nonscraping adjective
• scrapingly adverb
• unscraping adjective

Etymology

Origin of scraping

A late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at scrape, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

This has led to another burgeoning industry in scraping Google’s results and delivering them to other AI companies, so they can rapidly deliver the internet’s most current knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

"We need the tractor to be scraping up the muck, to feed the animals, for hedge-cutting and we've also started putting the fertilizer out," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

“It’s another version of scraping, which has been a problem since day one,” Caen said, referencing how Anthropic’s Claude and other LLMs have been trained on large amounts of copyrighted material from across the internet.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

On average, scraping behavior appeared after just 82 minutes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Mom and I had plenty of days when our problem was scraping together enough money to pay the bills.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman

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