It automates the task of retrieving web page content and posting forms, for example
Some of Snoopy's features:
* easily fetch the contents of a web page * easily fetch the text from a web page (strip html tags) * easily fetch the links from a web page * supports proxy hosts * supports basic user/pass authentication * supports setting user_agent, referer, cookies and header content * supports browser redirects, and controlled depth of redirects * expands fetched links to fully qualified URLs (default) * easily submit form data and retrieve the results * supports following html frames (added v0.92) * supports passing cookies on redirects (added v0.92)