[Gllug] Screen-scraping tools (for HTML)?

[Benedikt Heinen]

> I'm thinking there must be an easier way ...  Does anyone know of any
> tools to help automating / screen scraping pages?

With java I've successfully used nekohtml to parse (dirty) HTML into clean 
xml documents, which can then be easily disected with proper XPath 
queries...   (Your mileage with similar perl/ocaml/... libs may vary, but 
I'd look out for a similar setup)...



   Benedikt

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