Screen-Scraper basic edition 3.0

Screen-scraper is a cross-platform tool for extracting data from Web sites, which comes in two editions: a free Basic Edition, and a commercial Professional Edition.
It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions.
It handles authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, .NET, ColdFusion, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages.
Main features:
- Extracting mailing addresses from a web site and downloading them to a spreadsheet
- Mining product data from multiple sites to create meta-search sites
- Extracting news headlines to use in RSS feeds
- Creating a meta-search site to compare car prices
- Comparing rates for insurance quotes
- Conducting product research by mining data from several web sites
- Copying data from legacy mainframe applications
- Moving data from one application to another when upgrading
- Capturing web pages from an out-sourced system that will be run in-house
- Copying data from legacy mainframe applications
- Moving data from one application to another when upgrading
- Capturing web pages from an out-sourced system that will be run in-house