New Alfred Scripts: Scraping the Web

I have started looking for new ways to stretch Alfred to do more. I began wondering what data I could scrape off the web and push back through Alfred, returning it through Growl. I’ve come up with two or three new scripts lately.

Check eBay Item Status

This script will query eBay, grabbing the item page html, and scraping it for the data necessary. I’m still testing some stuff with it to work out little kinks, but as far as I can tell, it seems to work fine.

PHP Syntax Checker

This script does just as the name implies, it allows you to check the syntax of a php function. You provide the script with the function name you are looking for, it queries php.net, and it returns the function syntax and description.