Screen-Scraper.com software to extract information from web site
Title
Web Site Extraction Software, Screen Scraping Software, Web Site Data Mining Software, Automated Data Collection and Extraction
Description
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...
Fast-forwarding to today, our office is nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Provo, Utah in the U.S. There are now eight of us in the company, and business is humming along nicely. We're financially healthy without having taken on any external funding--loans, venture, or otherwise. The primary focus of our company continues to be on consulting services and improving our core technology, though we've recently made a foray into a new side venture powered by screen-scraper.
Contact
- ekiwi, LLC
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- Provo UT
- United States 84601
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- 801373.5865
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