now available for firefox 3, outwit is the web collection engine for everyone. it runs on your windows, macos or linux machine and allows you to browse through and easily grab information, collect media, contacts or
files from the internet, in a few clicks. find
pictures in galleries and search engines and
download them to your hard
disk or display online full screen slideshows in a single click. have the
program guess the structure of
data you want to extract and export it as a clean spreadsheet to excel... the hub is the very first
tool based on the outwit platform. a
free collection
application and a complete web harvesting environment in a single interface, outwit hub gathers a large series of recognition and extraction features to ease your web searches, sort and organize your collections, make your own mashups. with or without programming or technical knowledge, you can create automatic agents to gather and
format the information you seek. automatically browse through pages, collect and
format the information you seek. this
free firefox add-on is composed of a kernel, containing the library of functions and of an api, which will allow advanced users to build and distribute their own original
tools -called outfits- using the features of the kernel for specific
applications . each outfit is a small xul extension, with its own user interface, features, scripts, scrapers,
directory of web sources... the first outfit, outwit hub, is a multi-purpose development tool, meant to showcase a large number of the kernel's features, to cover a large spectrum of needs. it will keep evolving and become an indispensible tool, both for
data collection and for developing scripts, scrapers etc.
