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Re: Web scraping

• Posted by Craig Welch <craig at singmail.com> Oct 18, 2005
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Michael J. Sabal wrote:

>I'm not sure what you mean by a "web scraper", but I have a primitive version
>of a library I started for use with my natural language project.  
>
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/teknik/components-english/webtools.eu
>  
>
Thanks, those routines are most useful for me.

 From Wikipedia: "Screen scraping is the act of capturing data from a 
system or program by capturing and interpreting the contents of some 
display that is not actually intended for data transport or inspection 
by programs".

 From the website of a commercial web-scraping product:  You might use 
our technology and services to:

    * Extract product information from an e-commerce web site, then 
download it to a spreadsheet
    * Build a meta-search engine that queries multiple search engines 
simultaneously in real-time
    * Generate an RSS feed from a company intranet announcements page
    * Integrate multiple web-based applications into a single interface

-- 
Craig