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

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

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

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 / browsers, csrf, gmail, security, sitespecificbrowsers, twitter, webrunner, xulrunner