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Web Site Extraction Software, Screen Scraping Software, Web Site Data Mining Software, Automated Data Collection and Extraction
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Excerpted from the website:
- The story of screen-scraper isn't too different from that of many other tech start-ups--a "just for fun" project that was started in a basement grew to be much bigger than intended. Todd Wilson had been doing screen-scraping the hard way for quite a while (e.g., parsing HTML, manually handling cookies) and decided that there had to be a better way to go about it. screen-scraper initially started out as a web-based app written in Perl (because Perl's great for parsing text, right?), but Todd determined that something more interactive was needed, so the project was ported to client-side Java. From that point the ball was rolling mostly on weekends and in the evenings. The first beta release took place in October of 2002, and a version 1.0 was unleashed in July of 2003. By that point screen-scraper was being used by a number of companies in production environments, and ekiwi was growing in employees...
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