https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/what-could-a-journalist-do-with-scraperwiki-a-quick-guide/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/what-could-a-journalist-do-with-scraperwiki-a-quick-guide/#comment-481 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:33:58 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213701#comment-481 […] On Friday, ScraperWiki developer Anna Powell-Smith whizzed participants round ScraperWiki in 86 slides, explaining data scraping and storing and how it could be used in media investigations. View her presentation at this link. [For more information about ScraperWiki for journalists, see this post] […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/what-could-a-journalist-do-with-scraperwiki-a-quick-guide/#comment-480 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:03:52 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213701#comment-480 […] What could a journalist do with ScraperWiki? A quick guide | Scraperwiki Data Blog (tags: #hhhbrum) […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/what-could-a-journalist-do-with-scraperwiki-a-quick-guide/#comment-479 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:04:46 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213701#comment-479 […] on leisure centres from Birmingham City Council. I’d already written a simple scraper with Anna Powell-Smith‘s help (actually, she kind of wrote it, really) that scraped a list of leisure centres on the […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/07/what-could-a-journalist-do-with-scraperwiki-a-quick-guide/#comment-478 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:39:58 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758213701#comment-478 Are there any plans for a tutorial in London at any time soon? I’ve got a little scraper that I’d be happy to share, its a yahoo pipe and will generate an RSS feed from a regularly updated page section. It’s good for sites that don’t have their own RSS feeds.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=d73238e8659ada8c3b6edeb828cf7270

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