On Nov 16, 9:36 am, venkat <venkat@> wrote:
> Is there a library/framework forscraping(web)?
>
> I have a few scrapers written but would like to see if there are any
> libraries available. I don't mean Mechanize and Hpricot or any other
> parsers for (X)HTML.
>
> How does one automatescrapingscripts so that they download/scrape as
> and when the websites change. Launch it as a service? I would appreciate
> any examples for these.
>
> TIA
>
> -Venkat

You can check SWExplorerAutomation (SWEA) from http://webius.net. SWEA
separates UI elements binding from the automation script. It makes
SWEA automation scripts more more resilient to UI changes and
dramatically  decreases time needed for the script maintainance.