Screen Scraping: Boon or Bane?
August 22, 2011
Everyone who has ever thought about information extraction has considered screen-scraping software. Marco Albanico Inbound MLM does the legwork by explaining, “What You Need To Know Regarding Lead Screen Scraping Software.”
Clever folks can take content from a Web site which some of those original publishers assume will be “safe” from content predators.
We learned the following from this article:
[In addition] to streamlining content, these businesses gather ingenious information, [w]hich happens to be an important resource for just about any company or private group’s use. [It’s] not just for collecting and refining content, you may also take advantage of collected information within an organized form for reasons of intelligence, study, and storage for future use.
Mozenda is the leading software, as proclaimed by users on websites like theeasybee.com. For anyone completely new to Web extraction, they offer to setup the first project for free. They also convert your web data into a myriad of different formats.
Kapow Technologies offers the ability to extract without any coding, using a point and click technology. Their partnership with IBM has enabled them to produce a Web 2.0 Expo application for the iPhone in less than three hours.
The best suggestion Marco Albanico offers is to take advantage of the free trials that these two services and others advertise on their websites. Why limit yourself before exploring all of your options if they’re free?
Megan Feil, August 22, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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