We came across this blog post a few days ago from these cool guys at Tropo in Florida, and thought you’d be interested in how they’ve used ScraperWiki. Tropo is a simple API for adding voice and other goodies to your apps and, as Mark Headd explains, it can be really powerful when combined with […]
Mapping @TahrirSupplies
One of our users I recently met in New York said ScraperWiki is “a great tool for hacktivism”. Because of this we have a lot of ‘hacktivists’ in our community. One such ‘hacktivist’ is Thomas Levine. He’s recently scraped @TahrirSupplies, a twitter account set up to crowd-source the need for suplies at Tahrir Square and matching them […]
Meet Carl Plant – He Wants an Army of Armchair Health Researchers
I think more can be done with NHS data. We are seeing health data being published in such places as the NHS Information Centre, the Office for National Statistics, data.gov.uk, health observatories and various institutions such as the Royal College of GPs. There’s a range of useful NHS data available if you know where to […]
Meet all our users!!!!
As I have been looking for your great guys to highlight your work, passion and scraping oddities, so your time has come to explore the craven habits of the new age data digging programmers! You can now search for people on ScraperWiki!!!! Just use our regular search box. So all you ScraperWikians out there, I […]
Amazing Places Scrapers Go – The Big Clean
Earlier this month, there’s been some underground scraping action happening in Central Europe. We noticed this spark of activity and upon further investigation it was revealed to be a spill over from The Big Clean. At the beginning of this moth, there was Open Scraper Challenge happening in 3 hackerspaces in Czech Republic and Slovakia, in Prague, […]
Hi, my name’s Zarino
So when Nicola asked me to write a Friday post introducing myself on the ScraperWiki blog, I never thought I’d be writing it during such a momentous few days. I was meant to entertain and beguile you with talk of my MSc research into Open Data at Oxford, tease and tantalise with news of how we’re […]
Driving the Digger Down Under
G’day, Henare here from the OpenAustralia Foundation – Australia’s open data, open government and civic hacking charity. You might have heard that we were planning to have a hackfest here in Sydney last weekend. We decided to focus on writing new scrapers to add councils to our PlanningAlerts project that allows you to find out […]
Conquering Copyright and Scaling Open Data Projects – How Chris Taggart is Counting Culture
Chris Taggart is a founder of OpenlyLocal and OpenCorporates. He says “When people ask what I do I say I open up data, sometimes whether people like it or not.” In the beginning he didn’t really expect much to come of his first scrapers “other than maybe being told off by the councils, because all […]
This one goes out to the ScraperWikians we love!
From business licenses in Islington (London, UK) to Oakland (Calinfornia, USA), councillors in India, presidential engagements in Ireland, newspapers in America and planning applications in Westoxon; here at ScraperWiki we are saluting our users who are looting the web of data for those in need. The Robin Hood’s of the data digging world! We have […]
Meet the Minions – Young Rewired State
We’re an open platform and as with open door policies it’s hard to keep track of who’s come in. We’ve had an influx of youths. But no need to worry! There’ll be no loud music playing, hoody wearing, communicating in text message only on ScraperWiki. These are a pack of Young Rewired State. Here is […]