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Sounds very cool. I could really use something like this as infrastructure for a project I've got in mind. Not sure if you're planning an API or to open source any components.

Regarding the name, both surfscrape.com and clickgrabgo.com are available. Those were just the first couple things that came to me.

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We are planning to let you compile/publish/"download as" your script to standalone Google App, Ruby on Rails application, whatever. We have not come up with specific backends to support. This feature is under discussion at the moment. ;-)

geekfactor, please contact me so I can shape this to fit your needs better

Yes, we are going to open source our technology to some extent.

First candidate is a bunch of Lisp macros and functions which allows me to write Chrome extensions quickly

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