Is a web-scraping software a "wrapper"?

Question

I found that on Google, the definition of a wrapper is "any entity that encapsulates (wraps around) another item." also, "Wrappers are used for two primary purposes: to convert data to a compatible format or to hide the complexity of the underlying entity using abstraction."

I also know that web-scraping methods are used for extracting data from websites. Does this mean that a web-scraping software is a wrapper? Or have I completely misunderstood the definition of a wrapper?

Answer 1

Wrapper in data mining is a program that extracts content of a particular information source and translates it into a relational form.

Extracting data out of a website can be called web-scraping, however a wrapper will go ahead and perform one more step at "Translating the data pulled into a relational form"

We can say that a wrapper is something that a web-scraping tool might use in order to get more insight about crawled data