February 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.
September 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
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