"Scraper is a simple extension for reading data from web pages into spreadsheets".

"Heroku-deployable scraping library".

"Port of Python templatemaker to Ruby. Given a list of text files in a similar format, templatemaker creates a template that can extract data from files in that same format. The underlying longest-common-substring algorithm is implemented in C for performance".

A ruling from the European Court of Justice in 2004 cast doubt on exactly how much protection database law gives to the back end of websites. Bookmaker William Hill successfully argued at the European Court of Justice that the British Horseracing Board (BHB) could not protect its database of races using the database right.

The Court agreed with the gambling company that the database was a by-product of the BHB's main activity, which was organising horse races. Making the database, then, did not demand the kind of effort that required the law's protection, it successfully argued.

"This Web Site is for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not at any time modify, store, copy (including for example screen scraping), extract, reutilise, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell, distribute or create any information, products or services obtained from, linked to or using this Web Site and any data therein or that may provide users with the ability to do the same".

It's a shame they only allow Python scripts.

"An open source bookmarklet that makes CSS selector generation and discovery on complicated sites a breeze".