Difference b/w Data and Screen Scraping?

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Data scraping extracts structured data from websites while screen scraping extracts unstructured data from user interfaces.

Data scraping is used to extract specific data from websites and store it in a structured format.
Screen scraping is used to extract unstructured data from user interfaces such as images, videos, and text.
Data scraping requires knowledge of HTML and web development while screen scraping requires knowledge of user interface design.
Examples of data scraping include extracting product information from e-commerce websites while examples of screen scraping include extracting text from PDF documents.
Data scraping is more reliable and accurate than screen scraping as it extracts structured data.
Screen scraping is useful when there is no API available to extract data from user interfaces.

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