Yes, this is close to what I want to do in terms of functionalioty. My idea was to use a wizard-like approach to record the elements of a page that we need to capture and how to navigate through a specific site. They appear to be doing this, though the system has failed a few times on me - they're doing it in a browser, whereas I'd planned to create an app. Very interesting though. Anyone who knows of anything similar or who is interested in building something like this, get in touch

Actually I might be interested - please leave an email.

Not sure if this is appropriate - as not responding to one particular person - but I'd like to send a BIG Thank You to everyone out there for the advice, encouragement and sometimes the reality "keep your feet on the ground" type stuff. This has inspired me to move forward with this. To those who have done stuff like this before, thanks for the links and I'm grateful for you sharing your experience.

If its OK I'd like to let people know about my experiences. Oh, if anyone is interested in collaborating or just sharing ideas then I'd be happy to do likewise

All the best

Good idea. Add an email or website at http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=franklymydear and then you can exchange private messages by multicast rather than broadcast.

Feel free to ask me more questions by email. I spend a fair bit of time thinking about html parsers.

Thanks! I've just done this. Going to do some research into this area and then make a plan to start in the next week.