General Technical

A sub-extractor pattern will, by design, match only once per dataRecord.

If you need to match a datum that appears more than once, you need to use: scrapeableFile.extractData()

If you attempt to install screen-scraper on Ubuntu using a 64-bit chip you may get the following output when launching the installer:

Unpacking JRE ...
Preparing JRE ...
./setup_ss_enterprise.sh: 314: bin/unpack200: not found
Error unpacking jar files. Aborting.
You might need administrative priviledges for this operation.

To resolve this, please ensure that you have the "ia32-libs - ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and ia64 systems" package installed on your system.

No. screen-scraper is designed only to scrape data from web sites. If you're looking for a solution that can extract data from older mainframe-type applications, we'd recommend looking at Jagacy.

In order to install screen-scraper on a machine, you'll likely need administrative or root access. Generally this is not the case with virtual hosting, so you likely will not be able to run screen-scraper on your server.

We currently have installers that may work for you on Solaris. If these are of interest, please contact us directly.

Sort of, yes. See this blog posting.

If you're using the Enterprise Edition of screen-scraper, this can be done via the web interface.

screen-scraper will automatically follow certain redirects, so it just depends on what type the web site is making use of. There are three types of redirects that are typically used on the web: