jeremybmerrill

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   by jeremybmerrill 9y ago

   Developer here. Sorry, all the HN traffic overwhelmed my t2.micro. Had to upgrade a li'l bit.
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   by jeremybmerrill 9y ago

   Here it is: https://www.crossing.us/intersection/06110498932921_11049893...
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   by jeremybmerrill 11y ago

   you've got me beat there, doppelganger! I love the idea of putting the bus tracker inside a model bus. Do you mind if I steal that idea?
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   by jeremybmerrill 11y ago

   who needs practical uses?
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   by jeremybmerrill 13y ago

   Thanks, will check it out.
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   by jeremybmerrill 13y ago

   Thanks, Dan. I'll check that out, especially for good ideas on how to solve things I haven't solved yet. Spidering and scraping seem to be very related, but not quite the same -- and I admittedly know nothing about spidering.
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   by jeremybmerrill 13y ago

   I had never seen this before. I will check it out, at least for inspiration. I'd say "scraping" is a little more focused on extracting data from specific pages as opposed to ALL pages as in "spidering", but the two
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   by jeremybmerrill 13y ago

   Thanks, I hope you like it.
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   by jeremybmerrill 13y ago

   Nope. Sorry. :) While I'm sure this would be possible, I think a node.js scraper would probably be a better fit for that sort of a project.
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    by jeremybmerrill 13y ago

    AFAICT, YQL can only handle scraping individual pages that way. Upton can scrape a whole set of pages. If you have a page that lists the pages you're interested in; suppose you're interested in HN commenters on front page posts, y