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3 items tagged “xulrunner”

Crowbar. Headless Gecko/XULRunner which exposes a web service API for screen scraping using a real browser DOM—just pass it the URL of a page and the URL of a screen scraping JavaScript script (a bit like a Greasemonkey user script) and get back RDF/XML. 2 24th January 2009, 11:52 pm

Flickr Uploadr: Open Source and Powered by XULRunner. Quietly released a few months ago; it’s really nice. 1 13th February 2008, 11:30 pm

WebRunner 0.7—New and Improved. A simple application for running a site-specific browser for a service (e.g. Twitter, Gmail etc). This is a great idea: it isolates your other browser windows from crashes and also isolates your cookies, helping guard against CSRF attacks. 1 27th September 2007, 1:55 pm

A django site