Subj : Re: Learning screen scraping
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 03:06 am

programmernovice@yahoo.com said:

> Hi, I would like to learn to screen-scrape to extract information from
> web sites.

Why not just get the information by downloading the page in the normal way? 
For text information, you will find this far more reliable. And even for 
graphics, surely it's easier and more reliable to download the PNG or JPEG 
or whatever yourself, than it is to scrape it off your browser window?

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Richard Heathfield
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