Page Scraper

Sometimes a web site has just one piece of information you find interesting or want to keep track of (without having to constantly start your browser and visit the site). You could write your own custom Widget, or, if you're up to the challenge of using Regular Expressions, this simple tool can save you the trouble.

Regular Expressions are NOT for the faint of heart. If you're not an experienced computer programmer, please think twice before trying to use this Widget. Even programme… More

Current Version: 1.4.2

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March 20, 2006 · version 1.4 Bart
This is great. Works a charm, once you learn how to write good regularexpressions (not that hard). Be nice if there was an easy way to spawn multiple instances or some other way of scraping several pages. This tool is just so incredibly usefull for so many things :) Good work.
March 15, 2006 · version 1.4 Chris Means
Yes, the routine only takes the first match. It keeps things simple. I'm not sure when I'll get more time to add the new features requested, but keep an eye on this space.
March 02, 2006 · version 1.4 Dan L
Awesome widget - let me share one that some may find useful - if you want to display a real-time stock ticker (based on Yahoo's ECN price) - I'm using the APPL stock as an example:
1) URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ecn?s=AAPL (Note: replace AAPL with your stock symbol)
2) Regular Expression: <td class="yfnc_tabledata1"><b>(.*)</b> <nobr><small>
3) Uncheck Global/Multiline and Unescape Result
4) Set Prefix Text to wha… More
February 28, 2006 · version 1.4 David S.
Excellent widget.

As a note, you may want to list in the help if the engine is text-directed or regex-directed.

Thanks for your time working on this.
February 28, 2006 · version 1.4 Benny
This is actually an excellent widget, could do with a few more regexp examples in the help though.

Top marks.