Posted by Arne Vajh�j on 06/12/31 11:57

onetitfemme wrote:
> Say, people would like to log into their hotmail, yahoo and gmail
> accounts and "keep an eye" on some text/part of a site
> .
> I think something like that should be out there, since not all sites
> provide RSS feeds nor are they really interested in providing
> consistent and informative content (what we (almost) all are looking
> for).
> .
> I have been mostly programming java lately. THis is how I see such an
> API could -very basically indeed- be implemented:

> I recall there was some java project called HTMLCLient, but I wonder
> what appened to it
> .
> I think search engines use similar algorithms and I was wondering
> about how the masters do it

There are a long list of software here:

http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/screen-scraping-tools-written-in-java/view

Arne

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