README.txt

   
                                C R O W B A R 




  What is this?
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  Crowbar is a web scraping environment based on the use of a 
  server-side headless mozilla-based browser. It is used as a 
  a research prototype to investigate how to enable the running 
  of Piggy Bank javascript scrapers from the command line and
  thus automating web sites scraping.
  
  
  Where is the documentation?
  ---------------------------
  
  You can find the latest up-to-date documentation at
  
   http://simile.mit.edu/crowbar/
                         
  

  Licensing and legal issues
  --------------------------

  Portions of Crowbar are reused from the Tabulator project, made
  available under the open source W3C Software License:
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231

  The rest of Crowbar is open source software and is licensed under the
  BSD license located in the LICENSE.txt file located in the same
  directory as this very file you are reading.





  Credits
  -------

  This software was created by the SIMILE project and in particular:

   - Stefano Mazzocchi  <stefanom at mit.edu> (original author)




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  Thanks for your interest.




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