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    Screen Scrapers

    Anybody got and / or used this type of software?

    Need a small one off job doing but want to farm it out, PM me if interested.
    Me, me, me...

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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Anybody got and / or used this type of software?

    Need a small one off job doing but want to farm it out, PM me if interested.
    What sort of screen needs scraping? I've done a lot of HTML scraping, and long ago learnt enough to be able to scrape Prestel and Teletext, should the occasion ever have arisen.

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      #3
      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
      What sort of screen needs scraping? I've done a lot of HTML scraping, and long ago learnt enough to be able to scrape Prestel and Teletext, should the occasion ever have arisen.
      A subsection of a forum (not this one). Not sure how to format it but need the data ultimately into a MySQL DB where I can build a front end.
      Me, me, me...

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        #4
        This might help (or if not, is interesting at least):

        Refine, reuse and request data | ScraperWiki

        If you can't get a software scraper to work properly, you could always use the Amazon Mechanical Turk and pay some filipinos to do it.
        "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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