System and method for non-programming development of rules used in the transformation of web-based information

摘要

A method of establishing rules corresponding to attributes of a thing to be identified in order to have a non-programming means capable of obtaining information from web pages includes finding a web page corresponding to information related to a desired thing, selecting a form to overlay the found web page, and extracting information from the found web page based on the form. The form is defined by rules corresponding to attributes of the desired thing.