Chapter 24. Hacking iMacros
In the previous chapter, you learned that iMacros is a useful tool for controlling a browser. However, the previous discussion was limited to recording browser behavior in a macro file and replaying that macro later. In this way, iMacros is more like an extension of a browser bookmark and bears little resemblance to the dynamic webbots described in this book.
Fortunately, you’re not limited to the iMacros everyone else uses. Since iMacros is browser based and relies on web protocols, we can exploit those protocols—and their capabilities—to do things that the original iMacros developers didn’t consider. In this chapter, you’ll learn a few tricks that will enable you to download and scrape nearly any website, including ...
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