Category Archives: Scrape commands

The “Saved Area” is a place where text can be saved for later. Suppose some webpage text got chopped up on the Chopping block, and the Chop Result is now a useful word. You can Copy the word from the … Continue reading →

The “Chop Result” is how we refer to the words currently on the chopping block. What words? What chopping block? What is chopping? Good questions.

The “SavePrepend” command is just like SaveAppend, except that instead of adding the Chop Result onto the end of the Saved Area, “Prepend” means to insert the Chop Result onto the beginning of the Saved Area, ahead of whatever text … Continue reading →

The SaveAppend command is very useful. Once you’ve chopped some words on the Chopping block, you can Save them to a special area called the “Saved Area”.

The KeepBeforeIncluding command is ‘h’. I apologize yet again for a single-letter command. ^g^ is an example.

The KeepAfterIncluding command is ‘g’. My apologies for a single-letter command. ^g^ is an example.

You know what, sooner or later, someone will want to know how the heck to “View Source”. That’s because people who want to extract useful information from webpages, will need to do exactly that,

The KeepBefore command is ‘b’. It’s very commonly used in scraping webpages, and is usually preceeded by a KeepAfter ‘a’ command.

KeepAfter and KeepBefore are the two most fundamental scraping commands, and most commonly used. So they were shortened to ‘a’ and ‘b’ to make the command sequences appear shorter. But you can also use the full word ‘KeepAfter’ and ‘KeepBefore’.

The very first character within a bunch of scrape commands, must be the delimiter. Delimiter is a separator, just like a space between words separates the words. And actually, you *could* use a space as the delimiter, but you *shouldn’t*, … Continue reading →