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24th January 2009 - Link Blog

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.

Posted 24th January 2009 at 11:52 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 24th January 2009.

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