Simon Willison’s Weblog

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.

# 24th January 2009, 11:52 pm / rdf, xml, screenscraping, gecko, xulrunner, mozilla, dom, greasemonkey, webservice, crowbar