Patent ID: 8285594

Claim:
A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computing devices for extracting data of interest to a user from a web site, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a description of data of interest from a user, the description of the data of interest being associated with an extraction parameter; querying, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a web site using a value of the extraction parameter and an extraction pattern, the extraction pattern being associated with the description of data of interest, wherein the extraction pattern is adapted to identify at least a portion of an output of a web site and extract information from one or more web pages associated with the web site, and wherein the extraction pattern comprises a regular expression; extracting, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the data of interest from the web site based on the query; and storing, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, the extracted data of interest.