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I am trying to collect small hacks like this that are popping up. I know everyone writes scrapers, but hardly anyone talks about it. But maybe talking about it
by kanzure 14y ago
I am trying to collect small hacks like this that are popping up. I know everyone writes scrapers, but hardly anyone talks about it. But maybe talking about it would be helpful so that we can figure out what goes right and what goes wrong:
https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front
Someone contributed a small greasemonkey script that does something similar to the JSTOR memorial liberator, except for SpringerLink previews.
https://gist.github.com/4535401 https://gist.github.com/4535401
- merinid 14y agoYou're right. everyone writes scrapers. Heck Google is just one huge scraper. It's what you do with the data (and in some cases, what you might intend to do with the data) that counts.