Re: Scripting in PiggyBank

From: Chung Le <chung_le_at_dslextreme.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:13:28 -0800

David Huynh wrote:

> Hi Chung,
>
> Have you tried the following 2 tools?
> http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

I am familar with this one.

> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/

This is new to me, and I am eager to try it out.

>
> They are probably more suitable for the kind of generic website
> scripting you want.
>

Many thanks,
-- Chung --

> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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> Chung Le wrote:
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>> I have been using PiggyBank, and successfully created several screen
>> scrapers with it.
>> The combination of the PiggyBank RDF store, the user interface, XPath
>> and screen scraper wrapers provides a very powerful way to extract
>> data in RDF format from arbitrary web pages. I found it extremely
>> useful and a sound solution to my information needs. Thanks for
>> making this state of the art tool available!
>> I now would like to find a way to automate the process of going to
>> different web sites to collect info. Each web page requires a user id
>> and password. It also requires certain pattern of navigation to get
>> to the right web page, where a screeen scraper has been provided for
>> PiggyBank to collect the needed info. I would very much appreciate
>> some advice as to how to automate the process either in PiggyBank, or
>> outside of it using some conventional methods.
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>> Happy PiggyBanking ...
>> -- Chung Le
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Received on Tue Nov 29 2005 - 01:07:03 EST

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