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

Flickr Uploadr: Open Source and Powered by XULRunner. Quietly released a few months ago; it’s really nice.

# 13th February 2008, 11:30 pm / open-source, javascript, flickr, uploadr, xulrunner, richard-crowley

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.

# 27th September 2007, 1:55 pm / webrunner, security, csrf, browsers, twitter, gmail, xulrunner, sitespecificbrowsers