what is the best method or tool to scrape web sites? [closed]

Question

i need to scrape (with approval) web sites before I start to write my own what is the best tool/way to scrape web sites, which is both fast (multithreaded) and easy to learn?

Answer 1

Take a look at this recent blog post by Lee Holmes. He wrote a pretty cool screen scraper using Powershell and the HTML Agility Pack.