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To be very precise, the following is what I want to do. Please don't steal my idea. I am not a programmer, but I do run the site www.nimonik.ca and can do the d

by jbrun 18y ago

To be very precise, the following is what I want to do. Please don't steal my idea. I am not a programmer, but I do run the site www.nimonik.ca and can do the design/marketing/admin. 1. Automate a scraper to pull data from the PDF files found here: http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=65,2151455&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=65,2151455&#... 2. Have that data in a basic mysql db that can interact with the UI found here: http://www.pnika.com/hockey http://www.pnika.com/hockey 3. Package into an iphone app and submit to app store.

jodrellblank 18y ago
More seriously: 1. What about copyright / bandwidth / permission to scrape from that site? 2. Where is the mysql db? Do you have servers and hosting or do they need to be conjoured from somewhere, configured, installed, etc? You're talking of iPhone programming, which is currently popular and therefore costly, and also database skills and some kind of communication between the two, and scraping and unmentioned extras (particularly backend scalability if you want a lot of iPhone purchases, user accounts? database reports? some kind of admin controls)? A weekend sounds optimistic for a robust solution to me.
- jbrun 18y ago
  I have a mysql db running on a bunch of sites we can use. As for copyright, i don't know for sure, but it is municipal government data so that is not a big worry. No user accounts. No admin. Weekend might be a tad optimistic, but I think it can be done with someone who has a some experience scraping data from pdfs and already has tools he can use.
slig 18y ago
While you don´t have the scrapper, which I don´t find that´ll be easy to do, you maybe can pay someone to do it using mechanical turk ( https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome ).

by jbrun 18y ago

jodrellblank 18y ago

More seriously: 1. What about copyright / bandwidth / permission to scrape from that site? 2. Where is the mysql db? Do you have servers and hosting or do they need to be conjoured from somewhere, configured, installed, etc? You're talking of iPhone programming, which is currently popular and therefore costly, and also database skills and some kind of communication between the two, and scraping and unmentioned extras (particularly backend scalability if you want a lot of iPhone purchases, user accounts? database reports? some kind of admin controls)? A weekend sounds optimistic for a robust solution to me.

jbrun 18y ago
I have a mysql db running on a bunch of sites we can use. As for copyright, i don't know for sure, but it is municipal government data so that is not a big worry. No user accounts. No admin. Weekend might be a tad optimistic, but I think it can be done with someone who has a some experience scraping data from pdfs and already has tools he can use.

slig 18y ago

While you don´t have the scrapper, which I don´t find that´ll be easy to do, you maybe can pay someone to do it using mechanical turk ( https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome ).