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Article:
  An Interview with Tim O'Reilly
Subject:   iMacros to the rescue...
Date:   2006-08-10 08:26:06
From:   SandraTalks
>There are a lot of primitive Web services--like >>screen scraping--where people are effectively >writing a driver for a Web site as a remote >data source. A lot of what is happening with >Web services is that we're starting to >formalize these ad hoc services.


That is true. In fact, we do this as part of our (internal) price scrapping from various online stores. On the other hand, there is good software available to automate data extracting even for regular websites. For example, we use iMacros from http://www.iopus.com and it saved us A LOT of time in creating all the extraction and form filling "drivers" :-)


Sandra