diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/cli/ScriptShell.lib.groovy b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/cli/ScriptShell.lib.groovy
index e7fb103b..a889f8b7 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/cli/ScriptShell.lib.groovy
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/cli/ScriptShell.lib.groovy
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ import java.nio.ByteBuffer
 import java.nio.charset.Charset
 import static net.sourceforge.filebot.web.WebRequest.*
 
-URL.metaClass.getText = { readAll(getReader(delegate.openConnection())) }
-URL.metaClass.getHtml = { new XmlParser(new org.cyberneko.html.parsers.SAXParser()).parseText(delegate.getText()) }
-URL.metaClass.getXml = { new XmlParser().parseText(delegate.getText()) }
 URL.metaClass.fetch = { fetch(delegate) }
 ByteBuffer.metaClass.getText = { csn = "utf-8" -> Charset.forName(csn).decode(delegate.duplicate()).toString() }
 ByteBuffer.metaClass.getHtml = { csn = "utf-8" -> new XmlParser(new org.cyberneko.html.parsers.SAXParser()).parseText(delegate.getText(csn)) }
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/ExpressionFormat.lib.groovy b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/ExpressionFormat.lib.groovy
index 04ec1c2c..11310866 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/ExpressionFormat.lib.groovy
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/ExpressionFormat.lib.groovy
@@ -170,3 +170,38 @@ String.metaClass.transliterate = { transformIdentifier -> com.ibm.icu.text.Trans
 *      "カタカナ" -> "katakana"
 */
 String.metaClass.ascii = { fallback = ' ' -> delegate.transliterate("Any-Latin;Latin-ASCII;[:Diacritic:]remove").replaceAll("[^\\p{ASCII}]+", fallback) }
+
+
+
+
+/**
+* Web and File IO helpers
+*/
+import net.sourceforge.filebot.web.WebRequest
+import net.sourceforge.tuned.FileUtilities
+import net.sourceforge.tuned.XPathUtilities
+
+URL.metaClass.getText = { FileUtilities.readAll(WebRequest.getReader(delegate.openConnection())) }
+URL.metaClass.getHtml = { new XmlParser(new org.cyberneko.html.parsers.SAXParser()).parseText(delegate.getText()) }
+URL.metaClass.getXml = { new XmlParser().parseText(delegate.getText()) }
+URL.metaClass.scrape = { xpath -> XPathUtilities.selectString(xpath, WebRequest.getHtmlDocument(delegate)) }
+URL.metaClass.scrapeAll = { xpath -> XPathUtilities.selectNodes(xpath, WebRequest.getHtmlDocument(delegate)).findResults{ XPathUtilities.getTextContent(it) } }
+
+
+/**
+* XML / XPath utility functions
+*/
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants
+
+File.metaClass.xpath = URL.metaClass.xpath = { String xpath -> 
+	def input = new org.xml.sax.InputSource(new StringReader(delegate.getText()))
+	def result = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().evaluate(xpath, input, XPathConstants.STRING)
+	return result.trim();
+}
+
+File.metaClass.xpath = URL.metaClass.xpathAll = { String xpath -> 
+	def input = new org.xml.sax.InputSource(new StringReader(delegate.getText()))
+	def nodes = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().evaluate(xpath, input, XPathConstants.NODESET)
+	return [0..nodes.length-1].findResults{ i -> nodes.item(i).getTextContent().trim() }
+}
diff --git a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/SecureCompiledScript.java b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/SecureCompiledScript.java
index d56c1a3b..2a73dcbf 100644
--- a/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/SecureCompiledScript.java
+++ b/source/net/sourceforge/filebot/format/SecureCompiledScript.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ public class SecureCompiledScript extends CompiledScript {
 		Permissions permissions = new Permissions();
 
 		permissions.add(new RuntimePermission("createClassLoader"));
+		permissions.add(new RuntimePermission("accessClassInPackage.*"));
 		permissions.add(new RuntimePermission("modifyThread"));
 		permissions.add(new FilePermission("<<ALL FILES>>", "read"));
 		permissions.add(new SocketPermission("*", "connect"));