The TESS Wrapper Tutorial
This is a brief tutorial about how to write wrappers for the TElegraph
Screen Scraper (TESS).
Some assumed knowledge
Basic regular expression.
Some familiarity with the stucture of HTML
The general ability to create files/directories and run programs.
A basic wrapper for TESS is contained within a .jsc file. This file is basically a collection of regular expresions
that tells TESS how to parse the data and information about where TESS can find the data. This is represented with
a series of directives of the form directive_name=value.
A step by step example of creating a wrapper.
Testing and debuging wrappers
A list of the currently supported directives and a brief description of what they do.
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