screen scraping is the act of "scraping" or copying content from a Stack Exchange site and republishing that content on a different site. Stack Exchange content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 and can be freely distributed with the attribution requirements. This tag should be used with posts concerning sites using Stack Exchange content without proper attribution.
See A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
Historically, SCRAPER here on Stack Exchange meant "Stack Content Republishers Attributing Poorly and/or Excelling at Ranking." More generally, a scraper is another website which copies content from our sites either by scraping directly from our pages, accessing the information through our API, or some other means. In principle, there's actually nothing wrong with doing this. Our content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 and is freely redistribituble, so long as they follow the attribution requirements and link back to us as the source. Some sites, however, do not follow these rules or bring up other concerns in the process.
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