Sydney, Australia, [Date] – Sequentum PTY Ltd., a software developer and consultancy firm, has launched a tool designed to extract content from any website. Sequentum’s software, Visual Web Ripper, is also used for automated web scraping and web harvesting.
Visual Web Ripper reads web sites and gathers content for harvesting, such as product catalogues, pricing information or sports scores. The tool is easy to use and a free trial is made available via download for those interested in trying it.
The Visual Web Ripper has instructions on how to use it for different functions such as anonymous web scraping and other functions. The power of Visual Web Ripper lies in its scripting capabilities.
Scripting is an option of Visual Web Ripper that is used to either customize its behavior or to extend its standard behavior. The common Visual Web Ripper scripts are regular expressions and .NET functions written in VB.NET or C#. There are three main categories of web ripper scripts.
Transformation scripts – This is a method used in the transformation of text. You may want to get only a postal code from an address and hence you are able to transform the address to a postal code.
Wait scripts – They can be used to estimate the time that Visual Web Ripper should wait for an Ajax callback to be completed.
Extension script – This are used to extend the Visual Web Ripper‘s functionality.
Script utility classes are used to make work easier in accessing a database in Visual Web Ripper scripts. This helps defining a shared script database connection where you can access all scripts in a project. Visual Web Ripper automatically opens a shared database connection prior to running a script and closes the connection when the script finishes running.
Defining a new script database connection is as easy as clicking the database button on the script editor.
To modify the data output before it is written to the destination data source, Post Processing Scripts are used. These scripts are also employed to write the data output to a custom destination data source or to the custom data structures in a database.
About Sequentum Pty Ltd.
Sequentum PTY Ltd. is a Sydney, Australia, IT consultancy and software developer established in 2008 [please confirm]. Sequentum is involved with a wide range of software projects, particularly in the areas of search and information retrieval, software design and architecture, database design and optimization, e-Commerce and online marketing. They specialize in rapid software development while delivering reliable products to their customers at a very competitive price tag.
Their flagship product is Visual Web Ripper, a powerful web data extraction and harvesting tool. Combining a user-friendly interface with a robust feature set, Visual Web Ripper is a competitively-priced option for anyone looking to capture data from the Internet.
For more information on Visual Web Ripper, visit www.VisualWebRipper.com. To learn more about Sequentum and their full range of services, see www.Sequentum.com.
Name: Soeren Mondrup
Phone: (508) 933-0425
E-mail: [email protected]
Media Contact: visualwebripper.com
