IRobotSoft -- Visual Web Scraping and Web Automation, Dummies' Tool to Collect Web Data

¿IRobotSoft -- Visual Web Scraping and Web Automation, Dummies' Tool to Collect Web Data

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News: IRobot 2.4.9.2009.6.14 is available for download.

IRobotSoft Visual Web Scraper for Dummies

IRobot, by IRobotSoft, is a visual Web robot software for Web scraping and Web automation purposes. The IRobot software can be used by non-tech Web dummies and skilled Web developers. For non-tech Web user, we provides a visual Web recording interface to let you automate almost any repetitive Web operations. You are able to create a Web robot to do just what you taught it to do -- to follow Web pages, extract Web links, collect pieces of information from Web pages, etc. Simply follow our dummies' help to create your first robot.

If you are a skilled Web developer, now is the time to stop wrestling with the endless regular expressions. IRobot will help you create precise, robust data extraction rules. Keep your smart intelligence on the creation of even smarter Web robots. You can create new Web robots in minutes and have all the fun of Web testing, Web automation and Web scraping at your hand. You will test the robots interactively without any compilations, see it visually for its realtime effects, and interact with databases with simple clicking. We have provided several free sample robots to demonstrate the IRobot capabilities.

If you are a database expert, you will find IRobot extremely useful. You are able to handle Web data just like dealing with your in-house data. You are able to make the Web and your local database 'talk' to each other without complex coding. You will be able to deliver complete Web data integration solutions without patching multiple software packages that may not be compatible to each other. With IRobot, you can easily change the input and output database to CSV file, XML file, or relational databases with simple clicks. You can easily transfer your Web robots to another machine by just copying the IRobot software and the scraper robot without any installation.

If you are a data service provider, we are here to help you too. You will find out that our software provides more computational power to you than other software that costs thousands of dollars. You can freely distribute IRobot softare with your solutions to your customers without forcing them to buy any software license. This saves dollars to both you and your customers.

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IRobotAssist Assistive Web Browser

We are developping an assistive Web browsing system to help low-vision and physically-disabled persons better access Web information. Download free trial.

Want to contribute to the development of IRobotAssist? Please contact us at <info@irobotsoft.com>.

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Forum

Have any trouble during Web scraping? Join our forum today and communicate with our most experienced IRobot users. Our online forum will provide you the most timely help. You will be surprised by many more undocumented Web scraping features! We also value any suggestions from you.

IRobot is created by IRobotSoft FREE of charges for all users. However, we welcome your comments and donations to improve our software and support our continuous efforts!

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Sample Web Robots

Each robots is a standalone '.irb' file and you can click and run it. (You should know that you can protect your robot files with passwords (the default password is empty)). See our model robots bellow to have a sense of what IRobot can do. Remember that you can recreate all of them in your own! You only need a ".irb" robot and a small "irobot.exe" executable (1.6M, unbelievably small) to run the robot on a new computer. You can download a free evaluation rar or zip copy of IRobot now. New user's manual is available (html, pdf, 2.1M)

Web Mail robot (checkmails.irb) helps you check your Web mails from Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail and notify you when new messages arrive. You don't need to keep refreshing the Web pages and reentering passwords every time. It hides in the tray bar and consumes only a small amount of CPU time. Your password will be remembered by the robot the first time you run it. bbs
Resume Blaster robot (monster.irb) helps you search and submit resumes to Monster.com. It also come with a resume renewer. You can easily improve it to act on your schedule.
BLAST robot (blastx.irb) submit BLAST sequence similarity search from NCBI Web site and extract all nucleotide sequences matching within a E-value threshold. The sequences, matching scores and E-values are then saved into a local 'save.txt' file. See detail. bbs
BaiDu and SoGua MP3 download robot (baidu.irb) help you search and download MP3 from BaiDu and SoGua with your keyword. The robot will continuously follow the [Next] link to collect all matched results, open each result page to extract MP3 links, and download all MP3 files in multiple threads. It can also download the top 100 songs and top 100 singers. All downloaded MP3 files are named as theirs descriptive names. So you will never miss your favorate MP3. bbs

IRobot now offers ActiveX support! Refer our IRobot Programmer's Guide for a complete example to BLAST gene sequences from a VB program.

Below is the IRobot interface, and welcome to our IRobotSoft community!

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Last Update: Jun 15, 2009.