Web Data Scraping with Adobe Flex?

Hi all.
I need to get a lot of data coming from several websites.
For now, I'm using Djuggler, but I'm wondering if something simular can be achieved with Adobe Flex?
I have no experience with Adobe Flex in this field, so any remarks, comments, suggestions, tutorials, would be much much appreciated!
I need to have good arguments to convince my boss to buy Adobe Flex :-)
Thanks a lot in advance!!!
Kind Regards
Jurgen Landrie

No.  Read-access won't help.  What is required is that there is a webservice available for your use.
For example, you can go to Yahoo and view stock quotes via the Yahoo finance page.  And yes, you can screen-scrape it, but Yahoo also provides a webservice to access the quotes directly.  Flex is designed to make calls to those webservices and display the data.  IIRC, the terms and conditions of many websites discourage or disallow screen-scraping.

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