screenscraping

If the gData API for YouTube statistics lags behind the watch page and Insight by even 24 hours, it is useless in indicating trends and for using in reports and people have to go back to screenscraping to gain information on the actual views of their videos.

ginger's thoughts » View counts on YouTube contradictory 2009

If the gData API for YouTube statistics lags behind the watch page and Insight by even 24 hours, it is useless in indicating trends and for using in reports and people have to go back to screenscraping to gain information on the actual views of their videos.

ginger's thoughts » 2009 » December 2009

Mint. com in the USA has a gorgeous looking site, and has been heavily covered by many of the tech blogs, but they have a soft underbelly – using screenscraping courtesy of an outfit called Yodlee, allegedly!

Kublax wins further funding Mike Butcher 2005

Writing a screenscraping wrapper class might also be just as feasible, and it would even survive if Google decides to kill of the REST API one day; such a wrapper may also support those features which the SOAP API had but the REST API doesn't (querying for the Google cache of a page, and spellchecking, the least).

Google Blogoscoped 2009

Perhaps your web API returns XML, or perhaps you're getting your data by screenscraping HTML.

Haddock Blogs 2009

Writing a screenscraping wrapper class might also be just as feasible, and it would even survive if Google decides to kill of the REST API one day; such a wrapper may also support those features which the SOAP API had but the REST API doesn't (querying for the Google cache of a page, and spellchecking, the least).

Google Blogoscoped 2009

Perhaps your web API returns XML, or perhaps you're getting your data by screenscraping HTML.

doggdot.us 2009

Writing a screenscraping wrapper class might also be just as feasible, and it would even survive if Google decides to kill of the REST API one day; such a wrapper may also support those features which the SOAP API had but the REST API doesn't (querying for the Google cache of a page, and spellchecking, the least).

Google Blogoscoped 2009

Writing a screenscraping wrapper class might also be just as feasible, and it would even survive if Google decides to kill of the REST API one day; such a wrapper may also support those features which the SOAP API had but the REST API doesn't (querying for the Google cache of a page, and spellchecking, the least).

Google Blogoscoped 2009

This is purely a ruby script but I used Rails to save the data using Mass Assignment + ActiveRecord (MySQL). (tags: screenscraping ruby rubyonrails) [...] links for 2008-09-08 | iKeif - tech and social media geek, mootools fan, and a ton of links on September 8, 2008 at 12: 01 pm

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008