Mechanize and Hpricot on Steroids. scRUBYt! is a simple to learn and use, yet powerful web scraping toolkit written in Ruby. The idea behind making scRUBYt! was to show a few simple concepts of Web ex
Mechanize and Hpricot on Steroids. scRUBYt! is a simple to learn and use, yet powerful web scraping toolkit written in Ruby. The idea behind making scRUBYt! was to show a few simple concepts of Web ex
The EvilAPI supports most of the same SOAP calls that Google’s SOAP Search API supports — it just doesn’t use their deprecated API to get the data. Instead, it uses page scraping.
Despite of the ongoing Web 2.0 buzz, the absolute majority of the Web pages are still very Web 1.0: They heavily mix presentation with content. [1] This makes hard or impossible for a computer to tell
Screen scraping is a technique in which a computer program extracts data from the display output of another program. The program doing the scraping is called a screen scraper. The key element that dis
So we scrape. We build little collections of tortured code that splice and dice html, text files, PDFs and other documents to pull out the structured data that our apps need. We have no idea whether w