2011
Diffbot: Follow Anything
by Spone
diffbot is a visual learning robot that enables developers to create rich mobile experiences from web content.
2009
2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick
by springnet & 2 others
The highlights of the post are the link to this Wired article about the economy of screen scraping (great article) and this screencast about how to use Dapper that I finally recorded.
2007
ChartLet :: Modules pour Firefox
by CharlesNepote
Chartlet is a Firefox extension that periodically checks places on the Web, extract and stores numerical values. On demand, you can display the history of those values in nice charts.
2006
Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Data extraction for Web 2.0: Screen scraping in Ruby/Rails
by springnet
WWW::Mechanize belongs to the family of screen scraping products (along with http-access2 and Watir) that are capable to drive a browser. Let’s apply the ‘Show, don’t tell’ mantra - for everybody’s delight and surprise, illustrated on our google
2005
Perl.com: Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize
by thauser
Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize▐ By Chris Ball▐ January 22, 2003
''Screen-scraping… the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site… filling out forms, navigating around the site… dealing with the HTML… for traditional lookups of
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