Getting Started

Overview

Here we will discuss the basic concepts of screen scraping. This is to provide you with a solid background on which to understand why and how screen-scraper works the way it does. A good foundation is incredibly helpful when learning how to use a new tool; however, we recognize that some are very familiar with the concepts or pressed for time.

If you want to skip this part of the documentation we would encourage you to go through the first few tutorials. After the first few you should have a good idea how things are done.