Building a web site such as a shopping comparison site or a meta search site is difficult without extracting data from other web sites. With screen-scraper, the process is much more simple. You can use our web scraper to do the hard part of scraping data from other web sites and making it available on your own. There are four main steps in using screen-scraper to get product information from web pages:

• Visit the web pages that you want to get data from using screen-scraper's proxy tool.
• Define how screen-scraper should traverse the pages.
• Show screen-scraper the pattern of the data you want to get.
• Write small scripts or programming code to work with the data it extracts (or just use our example scripts).

Since you'll be able to re-scrape sites at the push of a button, maintaining your own will be simple.