It’s 9:54am in Torquay on a Wednesday morning: One appliance from Torquays fire station was mobilised to reports of a child with a potty seat stuck on its head. On arrival an undistressed two year old female was discovered with a toilet seat stuck on her head. Crews used vaseline and the finger kit to remove the […]
Scraping guides: Parsing HTML using CSS selectors
We’ve added a new scraping copy-and-paste guide, so you can quickly get the lines of code you need to parse an HTML file using CSS selectors. Get to it from the documentation page: The HTML parsing guide is available in Ruby, Python and PHP. Just as with all documentation, you can choose which at the top right […]
Quickly get an HTML table
As I said before the Julian sometimes adds simple things to ScraperWiki, and nobody even notices them. He obviously learnt, as he ticketed in BitBucket that we needed to release this one. The External API can output data in several formats. jsondict is the standard JSON format using a dictionary for each row, jsonlist an alternative JSON format […]
Job advert: Product / UX lover
ScraperWiki is a Silicon Valley style startup, but based in the UK. We’re changing the world of open data, and how programming is done together on the Internet. We’re looking for a web product designer who is… Able to make design decisions to launch features by themselves. Capable of writing CSS and HTML, and some […]
Job advert: Web designer/programmer
Care about oil spills, newspapers or lost cats? ScraperWiki is a Silicon Valley style startup, but in the North West of England, in Liverpool. We’re changing the world of open data, and how programming is done together on the Internet. We’re looking for a web designer/programmer who is… Capable of writing standards compliant CSS and […]