This article advocates for web scraping as an effective method to augment and enhance technical and professional communication (TPC) research practices. Web scraping is used to create consistently structured and well-sampled data sets about domains, communities, demographics, and topics of interest to TPC scholars. After providing an extended description of web scraping, the authors identify technical considerations of the method and provide practitioner narratives. They then describe an overview of project-oriented web scraping. Finally, they discuss implications for the concept as a sustainable approach to developing web scraping methods for TPC research.

本文主张将网络抓取作为一种有效的方法来增强和增强技术和专业交流 (TPC) 研究实践。网络抓取用于创建关于域、社区、人口统计和 TPC 学者感兴趣的主题的一致结构化和良好采样的数据集。在提供了网络抓取的扩展描述之后，作者确定了该方法的技术考虑因素并提供了从业者的叙述。然后他们描述了面向项目的网络抓取的概述。最后，他们讨论了该概念作为为 TPC 研究开发网络抓取方法的可持续方法的含义。