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)