Did it back in the old days, scraping stock quotes to build a database for display by our Java app and web services. Called NetProphet, it would do a score of

Did it back in the old days, scraping stock quotes to build a database for display by our Java app and web services. Called NetProphet, it would do a score of trend lines etc as overlays. I wrote the scraping code. Had a list of sites and macros for extracting quotes, updated every day to every customer. If one quit working (the site attempted to prevent scraping) the app would use another and give a notice back to me. I'd tweak the macro for that site, and we'd be back scraping it the next day. We eventually hired a finance student (Josh Hatwich, now a fellow at Adobe) to parse a Comstock satellite feed we put on the roof. That ended the era of scraping at StockPoint.