From: Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T02:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: visual web scraping with Ruby

Hi,
On 4/18/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rt.sk> wrote:> Hello all,>> Does anybody have an idea about this stuff?>> Wikipedia site:>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_scraping>> Look at the end:>> "The Ruby On Rails platform makes it possible to perform web scraping> visually. The built in AJAX engine can partially refresh portions of the> web page independently. Built in drag and drop means fragments of the> original page can be dropped on and incorporated into a new page.">> However there is no link to this 'visual scraping tool' - can someone> point me to it?>> Thx,> Peter>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Screen_scraping
at bottom:"""On 20:43, 21 January 2006, an anonymous user added a link toBox-A-Web[1]. No edit summary was given, but the contributor includedthe link description "Not an article on how to do it in Ruby, butrather a technology demonstrator for drag and drop web scraping usingRuby on Rails Framework"."""
[1] http://www.boxaweb.com/