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I work at ITA, but not on Needle. I have played around with an internal demo, but not for anything serious; I found it easy to use and to require little or no
by alec 16y ago
I work at ITA, but not on Needle. I have played around with an internal demo, but not for anything serious; I found it easy to use and to require little or no programming.
Check out the video: http://www.needlebase.com/videos/video1 http://www.needlebase.com/videos/video1
Part of Needle is a browser interface that helps you click through a website and tell it what to scrape without writing any code. It's pretty smart about reducing the amount of work you have to do; that starts at 1:50 of the video.
Needle is currently in open beta; try it out for yourself!
- joubert 16y agoWhat happens if the web page's structure changes? Something as simple as a table on a Wikipedia page that is over lower down the page?
- gmcdonald 16y agoChanges like that are usually fine. The tagging isn't keyed to specific DOM paths. glenn (Needle)
- mark_l_watson 16y agoThanks Alec, that was a cool video!