Tips & Suggestions

How to setup some special features, best practices, etc.

I'm running screen-scraper in a GUI-less environment. How do I update it to the latest version?

When screen-scraper normally updates itself it downloads a zip file from our server, decompresses it, copies the files it contains on top of the existing files, then updates its version number. We have created a Python script that will perform these steps automatically. To use it follow these steps:

How can I optimize screen-scraper's performance?

Here are some tips:

How do I insert the data screen-scraper extracts into a database?

There are several ways this can be done:

Can I run multiple instances of screen-scraper on the same machine?

Yes, and you won't be in violation of your licensing agreement, either.