title: Whats the best screen scraping language?
body: <p>Hi I want to create a desktop app (c# prob) that scrapes or manipulates a form on a 3rd party web page. Basically I enter my data in the form in the desktop app, it goes away to the 3rd party website and, using the script or whatever in the background, enters my data there (incl my login) and clicks the submit button for me.I just want to avoid loading up the browser!</p>
  
  <p>Not having done much (any!) work in this area I was wondering would a scripting language like perl, python, ruby etc allow me to do such? Or simply do it all the scraping using c# and .net? Which one is best IYO? </p>
  
  <p>I was thinking script as may need to hook into the same script something from  applications on different platforms (eg symbian mobile where I wouldnt be able to develop it in c# as I would the desktop version).</p>
  
  <p>Its not a web app otherwise I may as well use the original site. I realise it all sounds pointless but the automation for this specific form would be a real time saver for me.</p>