General Technical

screen-scraper will automatically follow certain redirects, so it just depends on what type the web site is making use of. There are three types of redirects that are typically used on the web:

screen-scraper supports HTTPS on all supported platforms except certain early versions of Mac OS X. If you're using the screen-scraper proxy server to access a site that uses HTTPS follow the directions found under the "Viewing encrypted transactions" found on this documentation page: Using the Proxy Server. In setting up scrapeable files to access pages that use HTTPS you don't need to treat them any differently than those that use HTTP.

Absolutely. screen-scraper handles cookies (and BASIC authentication tokens) transparently behind the scenes. When setting up screen-scraper to scrape information from your site you rarely need to take any thought for cookies. In certain cases, sites will set cookies in JavaScript. In such cases, you can set them within a screen-scraper script via the session.setCookie method.

Yes. This is a common situation, and generally just requires that you create a scrapeable file to handle logging in. This scrapeable file should be run first in the scraping session, allowing the web site to set cookies, which screen-scraper will then track for you.