Ruby web scraper

Description: develop a software platform and techniques to extract information from websites.
Role: concepts, specifications, development
Tasks:
– screen scrapers and web crawlers in ruby – I had a ruby framework developed for
crawling and scraping websites based on predefined rules, then export, normalize and merge
data from different sources. Recently I’ve studied a lot of semantic web technologies like RDF in order
to create an advance semantic scraper.
Tools: Ruby
Skills: in depth ruby knowledge, ruby as DSL, using specific ruby libraries like
Hpricot, Nokogiri, active record
Date: 2008-2009