http://simonwillison.net/2009-01-24T23:52:55+00:00Simon Willison2009-01-24T23:52:55+00:002009-01-24T23:52:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/24/crowbar/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Crowbar">Crowbar</a></strong></p> Headless Gecko/XULRunner which exposes a web service API for screen scraping using a real browser DOM—just pass it the URL of a page and the URL of a screen scraping JavaScript script (a bit like a Greasemonkey user script) and get back RDF/XML. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crowbar">crowbar</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dom">dom</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gecko">gecko</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/greasemonkey">greasemonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdf">rdf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scraping">scraping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webservice">webservice</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xulrunner">xulrunner</a></p>