Web Scraping for dummies?

Pretty much every scripting language has a capacity to do scraping. I'd say pick something you're comfortable with and try out some examples.

Install perl, and the download and install the simple web libraries. There's a sample script that comes along with them for straightforward scraping.

Platform is XP, code-writing skills are minimal.

If you can't find a script or something that you can modify easily, it'd be relatively trivial to write a perl script for it. I could whip something up fairly fast if you don't find something out of the box you like.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html will get webpages for you. "Scraping" is usually defined as a combination of both getting the webpage and parsing it for whatever data you want. There's no magic bullet for the parsing part, since, uh, webpages are different. You're going to have to write some code of some sort, somehow.

http://www.httrack.com/ for Windows et al http://www.sitesucker.us/ for OS X (for future AxeMe reference)

I use and enjoy Python and mechanize. You could provide the page and say what you want to scrape from it.

http://www.urltoys.com/ will do the j-o-b and is not too too difficult to use.

Perl's http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.06/ is a good toolkit for the job. You will need some programming skills to do anything with it though.