snipscrape
[![/space/scraper.jpg](/space/scraper.jpg)](/space/snipscrape)

For the impatient:  
[Download snipscrape 0.2 ](/space/snipscrape-0.2.tar.gz)  
[View snipscrape.xslt ](/space/snipscrape.xslt)  
[SnipSnap web site](http://snipsnap.org/)

Snipscrape is a screen scraper for SnipSnap. It enables you to import pages from
one SnipSnap site into another, or to recover content from SnipSnap-generated
HTML pages. It does this by transforming HTML pages generated by SnipSnap into
XML that can be imported.

Snipscrape is implemented in XSLT, and comes with a shell script for \*nix
platforms that does some useful preprocessing. You can use snipscrape without
the shell script, but you'll need to perform a few tasks by hand, such as
escaping special characters.

Assuming you'd like to scrape two pages, snip1.html and snip2.html, here's what
you'd do:

    $ snipscrape.sh snip1.html snip2.html > snips.xml

Now, go to the manager page in your SnipSnap, import snips.xml, and you should
be set!

See also:
  * [Rendering SnipSnap snips with XSLT](http://snipsnap.org/space/xml+issue)
  * [Migrating from Radio to SnipSnap with
XSLT](http://blog.fivesight.com/prb/space/Migrating+Radio+to+SnipSnap)
  * [Using XML to structure snips](http://snipsnap.org/space/xml+issue)
  * [servlets with snipsnap](/space/servlets with snipsnap)
  * [snipsnap 1.0b1 virtual hostname patch](/space/snipsnap 1.0b1 virtual hostname patch)
  * [snipsnap comment without login patch](/space/snipsnap comment without login patch)
  * [snipsnap macros](/space/snipsnap macros)
  * [snipsnap recent-changes snip name patch](/space/snipsnap recent-changes snip name patch)
  * [snipsnap register without email](/space/snipsnap register without email)
  * [snipsnap script macro and python](/space/snipsnap script macro and python)
  * [virtual host redirection](/space/virtual host redirection)