Scraping Sessions

Overview

A scraping session is simply a way to collect together files that you want scraped. Typically you'll create a scraping session for each site from which you want to scrape information.

Managing Scraping Sessions

Adding

• Select New Scraping Session from the File menu.
• Click the gear in the button bar.
• Right click on a folder in the objects tree and select New Scraping Session.
• Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-K

Removing

• Press the Delete key when it is selected in the objects tree
• Right-click on the scraping session in the objects tree and select Delete.
• Click the Delete button in the general tab of the scraping session.

Importing

• Right-click on the folder in the objects tree that you want to import the files into (other than the root folder) and select Import Into. In the window that opens, navigate to and select the scraping session you want to import.
• Select Import from the File menu. In the window that opens, navigate to and select the scraping session you want to import.
• Add the scraping session to the import folder in screen-scraper's install directory
  

  screen-scraper should not be running when you add the file into the folder. All files will be imported into the root folder the next time screen-scraper starts.

Exporting

When a scraping session is exported it will use the character set indicated under the advanced tab. If a value isn't indicated there it will use the character set indicated in the general settings.

• Right-click on the scraping session in the objects tree and select Export.
• Click the Export button in the general tab of the scraping session.