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Creating a newsroom tool in 30 hours or less June 28, 2012 at 2:51 PM At NewsHack in San Francisco, a team of eight journalists and developers spent 30 hours cobbling together Haystax, a point-and-click Web scraper to help anyone collect public information from online databases. Now we need help taking it to the next level.

Scott Wilson of http://screen-scraper.com/ has created a useful comparison of web-scraping software and posted it as a public doc on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsaY3Pb1lTh1dERtbWtTN0U3REgtYlNld0stV0NCV1E#gid=0