On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 15:14 -0600, Ken Moore wrote: > Hi all, > If you do not know, a "screen scraper" is (or was in 1992) a TSR (terminate > and stay resident) program that reads data from the screen and/or writes > data to the screen on pre-programmed cues depending on which screen is > active and the location of the cusor on that screen. In the early 90's I > used a screen scraper on MS DOS. > > Now, I am looking for a good version that can read and record data from a > web page. I am pretty certain that they exist. Has anyone seen one? Javascript: http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/screen-scrapers-howto.html Perl: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcreatingclientsthatparsecontentofotherwebpages.asp All together now: <http://blog.screen-scraper.com/2006/03/21/three-common-methods-for-data-extraction/> PHP 5 does this really well too. -- cheers, Mark