From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-01-20T00:07:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading Data from a Website

Gavin Baker wrote:
> 
> On 18 Jan 2007, at 21:34, Peter Szinek wrote:

> After finding your article on screen scraping *very* useful, I'm really 
> looking forward to this!

I am happy to hear this... Web scraping can be very-very-very tedious, 
(even with a superb tool like scRUBYt! :-)) so I will need a lot of 
users to try it on a lot of pages to help find and report the problems 
and come out with a really stable system. On the pages I am testing it 
works perfectly (and it already has a decent feature set), however, so 
far nearly always when I went to a previously unknown page there were 
some problems...

However, as you will see it will worth the time to report problems etc. 
because in the case of complex scenarios the solution will be much-much 
faster and robust than with a hand-coded stuff...

Back to coding :)

Cheers,
Peter

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