I am planning to write a series of entries on screen scraping, automated Web navigation, deep Web mining, wrapper generation, screen scraping from Rails with Ajax and possibly more, depending on my time and your feedback. Since these entries are going to be longer, I will be posting them to separate pages, and announce them on my blog.

The first article is ready, you can read it here.

It is an introduction to screen scraping/Web extraction with Ruby, evaluation of the tools along with installation instructions and examples.

Feedback would be appreciated (leave your comment here/on the article page, or send me a mail at peter@[name of this site].com), I will update/extend the document and publish new ones based on your feedback.

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