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Extract and structure unformatted data without prior system training
- binarymax 14y agoThis is really great - had I known about it a week ago I would have used it for a small project. (I ended up scripting it out with httrack). Definitely bookmarked for future use!
- kalmar 14y agoThis reminds me of Needlebase from ITA before they got swallowed by Google. Needlbase had a bit less magic and a bit more data modelling, judging by that little demo. Video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Gzlq4zSDk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Gzlq4zSDk
- brotchie 14y agoReally nice idea, I usually have to resort to some Javascript hackery to do this kind of thing (or BeautifulSoup). One click is awesome. A simple spoken script over the tutorial video by a voice actor would add significant credibility. There are a bunch of sites where voice over professionals will do a really good <60second clip for $100-200. Well worth it!
- amalag 14y agoVery nice idea. Can you give more detail about what kind of machine learning you employed?
- patrickk 14y agoNice! For those who want a wide ranging overview of web scraping in Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wxGESwQSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wxGESwQSA
- sgarbi 14y agoI see it useful for monitoring competitors. It would be great to have a kind of charting feature to visualize data à la webnumbr