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 / crowbar, dom, gecko, greasemonkey, mozilla, rdf, screenscraping, webservice, xml, xulrunner

undisposable.org. A free Web Service for checking if an address is likely to come from a disposable e-mail service. It’s the anti-Mailinator!

# 29th January 2007, 3:49 am / mailinator, undisposable, webservice

Apache Solr 1.1. Solr is the search Web Service built on top of Lucene. The latest release introduces JSON, Python and Ruby response formats in addition to XML.

# 13th January 2007, 1:16 am / json, lucene, python, ruby, search, solr, webservice, xml