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I've mentioned the plugin that lets you write scraping scripts a few times recently - I've just posted a wiki page that goes through the basics - and links to a few example scripts. The main change to the script tools since Bob did the initial work is the integration of a few SAX drivers. If you look at the example scripts, you'll see that having the SAX drivers makes it a lot easier to produce scripts. If you can get at the source of a web page, know a little bit about Smalltalk streams, and can follow the examples, you should be able to produce scripts. I'd suggest creating them in the development environment - all you really need for that is the script tool and vwnc - you don't need to create a BottomFeeder development image to play with this stuff
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