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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by shubhamjain on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:01AM (#11812152)
> Our scraper back then was light years ahead of any others, both in regards to performance (think checkpointing of program state) + accuracy of parsing and JS execution (back then the target goal was a complete emulation of IE6+, sans ActiveX (exception being various host objects such as XMLHttpRequest))

If you don't mind, can you tell me the name of the software? I was very much into scraping business myself around 2008. One of things I failed to do was to scrape a site made in ASP.NET Webforms. I was looking for software that could emulate Javascript and I think can recall something of that sorts that I saw.

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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 by qadevleadgrunt on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:54AM (#11813417)
Software was Kapow RoboSuite, it's since been going through a few acquisitions and can now be found at http://www.kofax.com/data-integration-extraction. The web site really doesnt tell a great story of the technical details, best thing is probably http://www.kofax.com/~/media/Files/Kofax/Datasheets/kapow/ds...
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