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An Open, Webby, Book-Publishing Platform – O’Reilly Radar
An Open, Webby, Book-Publishing Platform – O’Reilly Radar
WordPress as Book Publishing Platform
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Google group scrubyt is gone
Once in a while I am curious to see, what goes on in the scrubyt are.
I have a few Atom and RSS feed URLs stored in my feed reader (Firefox Sage), but I don’t reach them any more. The group just does not exist any more:Cannot find scrubyt
The group named scrubyt has been removed because it violated Google’s Terms Of Service.
I assume, it got spammed to much, the moderators didn’t care, and finally the resp. Google Groups surveillance instance had to go that step.
I still wonder, what the future of scrubyt is. Visit this previous link, even if only for the list of competing software (ruby only, I assume).
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web scraping afternoon
This wasn’t meant to be yet another web scraping afternoon.
This afternoon started with me trying to recover a little from a hard time.
I had two probation days for a web-site testing job with Selenium, I am in the middle of a couple of recruitment processes, and I don’t want to tell you about the real trouble.- I got intrigued to search oreilly.com for literature on Selenium and found a “Short Cut” document.
- I found something.
- I had a few looks over the chapter on “twill”.
- Before I really dived into the chapter on Selenium, I summed up, what I really liked and disliked about Selenium.
- Of course, being able to use XPath is great.
- With Selenium you somehow aren’t aware at all, that there is Javascript being made use of on a web-site, but you just leave this to the browser engine, initially to Firefox and to the Selenium IDE.
- I actually hate it, if your HTTP scripting depends on desktop computers running a browser and some remote control software to connect your server, where you “HTTP scripts” actually run, and the web browser(s), that you make use of.
- I did a little superficial research on: perl/ruby + mechanize + xpath.
- Yes, there is still scrubyt around, but isn’t that vaporware now itself?
- Found perl’s WWW::Scraper::TidyXML – “TidyXML and XPath support for Scraper”. Not bad. But then it’s from around 2003, and it seems to be vaporware. My e-mail to the author could not get delivered (“over quota”), so I guess, it’s seriously no longer maintained.
- WWW::Mechanize::Firefox seems to be nice, have a look at WWW::Mechanize::Firefox::Cookbook!
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