Are there any free web screen scraping tools, preferrably written in PHP or Java? Fairly basic requirements: the ability to pull down a page and put it in a data structure or xml file that is easy ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...

As screen scraping tools generally scan the existing consumer-facing web portals of financial providers, a small change to a website can create stability issues for screen scraping tools.

Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site. One interesting way to do this is woob — web outside of browsers. The system uses a series of backends tailored at particular sites.

As Danny Sullivan said at his blog entry, "Search engines have generally disliked rank checking tools, so what a surprise to read on the official MSN Search Blog a tip about one." After all the ...