Tutorial Overview

This tutorial illustrates invoking screen-scraper from other programs in ways more complex than those presented in Tutorial 3. From our external program we'll be passing to screen-scraper search parameters, invoking the scraping process, getting the scraped data from screen-scraper, then iterating over the data, and outputting it within our application.

Before proceeding it would be a good idea to go through Tutorial 2, if you haven't done so already.

If you haven't gone through Tutorial 2, or don't still have the scraping session you created in it, you can download and load it into screen-scraper by following these steps:

1. Download the zip file located here and unzip it. You should now have an "interpreted_java" directory and a "vbscript" directory.
2. If you're running Windows, and prefer to program in VBScript, import the "Shopping Site (Scraping Session).sss" scraping session located in the "vbscript" directory; otherwise, import the one located in the "interpreted_java" directory. Instructions on importing objects into screen-scraper can be found here.

Once you've got the scraping sessions imported into screen-scraper you're ready to roll. Click on the "Tutorial Details" link below to get going.