http://simonwillison.net/2009-01-24T23:52:55+00:00Simon Willison2009-01-24T23:52:55+00:002009-01-24T23:52:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/24/crowbar/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Crowbar">Crowbar</a></strong></p> Headless Gecko/XULRunner which exposes a web service API for screen scraping using a real browser DOM—just pass it the URL of a page and the URL of a screen scraping JavaScript script (a bit like a Greasemonkey user script) and get back RDF/XML. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crowbar">crowbar</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dom">dom</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gecko">gecko</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/greasemonkey">greasemonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla">mozilla</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdf">rdf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scraping">scraping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webservice">webservice</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xulrunner">xulrunner</a></p>

2008-02-13T23:30:59+00:002008-02-13T23:30:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/13/flickr/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/02/flickr-uploadr-open-source-xulrunner.html">Flickr Uploadr: Open Source and Powered by XULRunner</a></strong></p> Quietly released a few months ago; it’s really nice. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-crowley">richard-crowley</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/uploadr">uploadr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xulrunner">xulrunner</a></p>

2007-09-27T13:55:57+00:002007-09-27T13:55:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/27/mark/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/09/webrunner-07-new-and-improved/">WebRunner 0.7 - New and Improved</a></strong></p> A simple application for running a site-specific browser for a service (e.g. Twitter, Gmail etc). This is a great idea: it isolates your other browser windows from crashes and also isolates your cookies, helping guard against CSRF attacks. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/browsers">browsers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csrf">csrf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gmail">gmail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sitespecificbrowsers">sitespecificbrowsers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webrunner">webrunner</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xulrunner">xulrunner</a></p>