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I glanced over an article about Piggy Bank, <http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/ |
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Piggy_Bank>, which interests me as a screen scraper. |
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What I have in mind are RSS feeds from <http://www.craigslist.org/>. |
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Now, I can setup Feed-on-Feeds <http://code.google.com/p/feed-on-feeds/> |
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so that lotsa data from Craigslist downloads into the MySQL database. |
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However, much of the useful detail is buried in the text :( |
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So, this now makes me think of screen scraping the Feed-on-Feeds |
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interface. Kinda backwards, I'm sure others would come up with something |
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more sophisticated, directly accessing the database, but... |
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Anyhow, my thinking is to use this piggy bank to break down, get at, some |
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of the data. Then I can add that to the database to better track, well, |
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whatever. |
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Just kinda excited at the prospect of a new tool :) |
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While piggy bank may not really be Linux specific, and definitely not |
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Gentoo specific, I just really like the way the different Linux magazines |
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talk about software and tools, getting things done :) |
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-Thufir |
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