ASP Screen Scraping

Mozenda improves on current ASP screen scraping techniques

Mozenda is a tool designed to help those who are used to writing their own screen scraping scripts in ASP, PHP, Ruby, etc. do so more quickly and effectively. The Web Agent Builder software allows developers to create agents with only a few mouse clicks that would otherwise requires significant development time. The software even includes handy tools such as a regular expression generator and the ability to use and edit xpath expressions to ensure that you're getting the data that you need.

Mozenda also makes it easy to use the data you've extraced in your website or web app. We have a robust REST-based API that allows you to do everything from running an agent to getting back parameterized results from data you've already scraped all through simple web calls. The data is all returned as XML which means it can be easily parsed by PHP or ASP and used in a webpage of your own. In fact, if you'd like to see a sample site that pulls data from three different sites and then uses our API calls, you can check out cool hunting demo site.

Take a look at how easy it is to build agents with Mozenda by viewing some of our video examples.

For those folks who are still interested in writing their own screen scraper in ASP, PHP, Java, Ruby, etc., we've compiled a few resources:

• ASP screen scraping article
• Basic PHP scraper tutorial
• Java scraping tutorial
• Ruby screen scraping tutorial

About Mozenda

Mozenda is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that enables users of all types to easily and affordably extract and manage web data. With Mozenda, users can set up agents that routinely extract data, store data, and publish data to multiple destinations. Once information is in the Mozenda systems users can format, repurpose, and mashup the data to be used in other online/offline applications or as intelligence. All data in the Mozenda system is secure and is hosted in class A data warehouses but can be accessed over the web securely via the Mozenda Web Console. With the addition of a fully featured REST API, Companies can now seamlessly integrate their data automation with the Mozenda application. For more information on Mozenda web scraping software and services, please email us at sales@mozenda.com.