[thelist] Web Screen scrapers

Mark Groen evolt at markgroen.com
Thu Jun 22 18:22:16 CDT 2006


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




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