One of the most common uses of screen-scraper is getting product information from e-commerce sites. Many people who use the software and many of our clients need our web scraper to extract large amounts of data from web pages and download it either to a spreadsheet or a database. Regardless of the site, there are four main steps in using screen-scraper to get product information from web pages:

• Visit the web pages that you want to get data from using screen-scraper's proxy tool.
• Define how screen-scraper should traverse the pages.
• Show screen-scraper the pattern of the product data you want to get.
• Write small scripts or programming code to work with the data it extracts (or just use our example scripts).

Once those steps are followed, you can have an entire web site in a spreadsheet, database, or any format you choose!