webotron
Using industrial automation techniques for creating web scraping tools
... relies on smart pallets and autonomous workcells. Each workcell itself will consist of smaller autonomous workcells with very simple signalling used between workcells.
All hardware must extremely robust and well sealed from the surrounding environment.
The webotron project is a program environment which emulates the above for building web scraping tools using temporary Add-on programs running in the Firefox browser. The browser is used to handle all internet interaction and also as a user...