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IRobotAssist is available for early trial (4/19/2008).

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IRobotSoft Web Scraping Software

iRobot by iRobotSoft is a visual web robot creation software for web scraping and web automation purposes. The iRobot software can be used by both non-tech web users and skilled web developers. If you are a non-tech web user, you can use iRobot's visual web recording interface to automate repetitive web operations. You are able to create a web robot that does just what you have taught it to do -- to follow web pages, extract web links, collect pieces of information from Web pages, etc. Simply follow our dummies' help to create your first robot.

If you are a skilled web developer, you can now be relieved from the flickering regular expression coding. You don't need any other "code inspectors" to analyze HTML code snippets. IRobot will help you to create precise and robust data extraction rules. Keep your smart intelligence on the creation of even smarter web robots. You can create new web robots in minutes and have all the fun of web testing, web automation and web scraping at your hand. You will test the robots interactively without any compilations, see it visually for its realtime effects, and interact with databases with simple clicking. We have provided several free sample robots to demonstrate the iRobot capabilities.

IRobotAssist Assistive Web Browser

We are developping an assistive Web browsing system to help low-vision and physically-disabled persons to better access Web information. Please refer our recent publication for more about the IRobotAssist software. If you are interested in using our early alpha version or helping us in the testing, please contact us at <info@irobotsoft.com> with your detailed contact information. By participating in the early trial, we will be able to develop assistive features better suitable for you! Currently we only support English speakers.

Our online forum will provide you the most up-to-date help for many undocumented new features. We value features suggested by our elite users like you! Join our protected forum today and discuss your ideas and communicate with our most experienced developers! iRobot is created by iRobotSoft FREE of charges for all users. However, we welcome your comments and donations to improve our software and support our continuous efforts!

Sample Web Robots

Each robots is a standalone '.irb' file and you can click and run it. (You should know that you can protect your robot files with passwords (the default password is empty)). See our model robots bellow to have a sense of what iRobot can do. Remember that you can recreate all of these in your own! You only need a ".irb" robot and a small "irobot.exe" executable (1.6M, unbelievably small size) to run the robot on a new computer. You can download a free evaluation rar or zip copy of iRobot now. New user's manual is available (html, pdf, 2.1M)

1. Web Mail robot (checkmails.irb) helps you check your web mails from Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail and notify you when new messages arrive. You don't need to keep refreshing the Web pages and reentering passwords every time. It hides in the tray bar and consumes only a small amount of CPU time. Your password will be remembered by the robot the first time you run it. bbs

2. Resume Blaster robot (monster.irb) helps you search and submit resumes to Monster.com. It also come with a resume renewer. You can easily improve it to act on your schedule.

3. BLAST robot (blastx.irb) submit BLAST sequence similarity search from NCBI Web site and extract all nucleotide sequences matching within a E-value threshold. The sequences, matching scores and E-values are then saved into a local 'save.txt' file. See detail. bbs

4. BaiDu and SoGua MP3 download robot (baidu.irb) help you search and download MP3 from BaiDu and SoGua with your keyword. The robot will continuously follow the [Next] link to collect all matched results, open each result page to extract MP3 links, and download all MP3 files in multiple threads. It can also download the top 100 songs and top 100 singers. All downloaded MP3 files are named as theirs descriptive names. So you will never miss your favorate MP3. bbs

iRobot now offers ActiveX support! Refer our iRobot Programmer's Guide for a complete example to BLAST gene sequences from a VB program.

Below is the iRobot interface, and welcome to our iRobotSoft community!