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PixieRobot
PixieRobot is a scriptable web scraping robot which can grab images and data from targeted Web pages and save them on your local disk. It''s batch form submission capability allows data to be inserted into Web-sites for subsequent processing (e.g. auction submissions). PixieRobot is a Visual Basic program used to automatically retrieve (Screen Scrape) specified data from target Web Pages. For example consider retrieving off the Web current product prices from a number of your suppliers, or stock prices, or parcel delivery status. PixieRobot can operate in two modes: 1) With a stand-alone Windows interface (.EXE version), or, 2) As embedded routines (.DLL version) which are invoked from other applications and scripts. The .EXE version of PixieRobot once invoked is under the control of a user written VBScript. Function calls are provided for both versions to allow: - Web pages to be retrieved - Batch forms to be submitted - Widows files to be written - Picture images and data to be saved. To instruct PixieRobot on how to scrape the required pages the user writes a script or program to search for specific data strings embedded within the HTML. The resulting HTML string may then be manipulated by the script. PixieRobot harnesses the IE browser to do the work, so you are free from concerns about hidden fields and cookies. It connects to the Web-server in the conventional way. Processes the resulting Web page (HTML text stream) as it arrives on the users computer, and searches for data using the provided script. Extracted data or images are stored in the nominated folder. The ability to "Log" processing events is provided. PixieRobot is a shareware categorized under web scraping, web mining, off-line browsing, web robot, internet utilities tools.
Keywords: parcel delivery exe version text stream html text vbscript function web pages web page html dll version function calls batch target web delivery status scriptable web web scraping stand alone windows images submission capability windows interface html string screen scrape trough tried and true
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