Perl module WWW::Mechanize is great for scraping.

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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:45:41 -0700, alex <alex_f_il@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 7:19 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:
>> One of my clients has to log on to a service bureau's web site
>> every day and manually copy/paste a half-dozen fields from the
>> web page to an Excel spreadsheet.
>>
>> He wants me to try to automate this process.
>>
>> Can anybody point me in the right direction?
>>
>> I'm guessing my first step is to save the page in question
>> locally as HTML and start poking through it.
>>
>> But what am I looking for? Named fields? Some sort of HTML tag
>> names?
>>
>> I know this sounds really naive... but I'm clueless in this area
>> and have to start somewhere.
>
> You can easily record/write the automation script with
> SWExplorerAutomation (http://webiussoft.com).
>