Crowbar is a web scraping environment based on the use of a server-side headless mozilla-based browser. It is used as a research prototype to investigate how to enable the running of Piggy Bank javascript scrapers from the command line and thus automatin
...microformats are (in Alex's words) "adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being machine understandable." So what use would microformats be in a web browser? Alex explains that microformats will make the Web Browser
Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages. Automatic capture of citation information from web pages. Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches & tags. Integration with WordPress and MS Word. Interface in many languages.