Comment by encoderer

I work for a fairly successful start-up in the advertising industry.. We've done a MASSIVE amount of screen-scraping. phpQuery ftw.

I had a few months solid of nothing but scraper-building.

Besides, what's Google if not a screen scraper? :D

If anybody thinks it's "silly" they probably have a characterization in their mind that's not really how it works in the wild when done skillfully.