Perl and LWP (Score 1)

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Your money is likely better spent buying Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions Second Edition for example, which just came out, and then being able to apply that knowledge to many situations. Screen-scraping sounds indeed like parsing HTML, in which case it should be a breeze to use regexes and CPAN modules dedicated to HTML and even modified XML parsers to do the job...after all the power of XML is user-defined tags, there's nothing stopping the user from specifying html tag events...