Siteskinner

Most of the siteskinner source code is now available as open source. Siteskinner is still available as freeware. You can download it using the link below.

Intro
Site skinner is a collection of class objects that are designed to get infromation from the internet parse information to a database and then publish this information. There is support for the well known protocols HTTP FTP Telnet SMTP POP and Ping

On the Internet there is a lot of valuable information. In most cases the data is not easily available. The only way to look at the data is by using the interface supplied by the provider of that data. With Site Skinner you are able to overcome that barier.
Overview
Site Skinner is build as an ActiveX dll. But there is also a very easy to use VB script editor with full acess to all objects. You can use the dll in any programming language with ActiveX support. There are samples included for Visual Basic, Visual Basic Script and ASP

Please click here if you want to look at the complete documentation for these class objects.

If you need help then please try this developers forum first.

What can it do

The functionality of this library can be split into the following 3 main processes

• Get information from a remote computer. The objects that can be used for this are: InternetConnection, Dos, Explorer, FTP, Functions, GenericClient, POPmail and Telnet.
• If you have the information locally available then you can put this information into a database using the WebGrabber object.
• Now you want to make this (or any other) information available for others. The main object for this is the DBPublisher object. Besides the DBPublisher object you can also use the objects Crypto, FTP, functions, GenericServer, InternetConnection and SMTPmail

There are also a couple of 'bonus' object available. I added these object to the library because they were needed by other applications that I developed. The objects are: Registry and Scheduler

Now including the following applications with sourcecode:

Popup killer 4 different HotHTML3 plugins SQL builder Visual Basic add in Webmail (80% finished)

You can download a 7.2MB installable file by clicking here

Required for this version is that you have a system with any Windows operating system plus a working version of Internet Explorer 5 or later.

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Features

The list below will show you the object and theire purpose

Client : With this object it's easy to set up a TCP/IP connection to a server.
Crypto : For DES and RC encription and decription.
DBPublisher :For publishing database information using .htt templates.
DOS : Grab and process the output of any DOS command
Explorer : Hook into internet explorer. You can execute methods access the DOM and react to events.
FTP : Upload or download files using the FTP protocol
Functions : Various general functions.
InternetConnection : Get the internet connection state and/or change the state (auto dial)
POPmail : Get email from a POP server
Registry : Access the registry
Scheduler : For using the Windows Scheduler.
Server : With this opbject it's easy to creaty your own TCP/IP server.
SMTPmail : Send email using a SMTP server.
Telnet : Set up a telnet connection and execute commands.
WebGrabber : Grab data from the internet and store it in a database.