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 the protests with Goldsmiths
Zarino here, writing from carriage A of the 10:07 London-to-Liverpool (the wonders of the Internet!). While our new First Engineer, drj, has been getting to grips with lots of the under-the-hood changes which’ll make ScraperWiki a lot faster and more stable in the very near future, I’ve been deploying ScraperWiki out on the frontline, with […]
Protect your scrapers!
You know how it is. You wrote your scraper on a whim. Because it’s a wiki, some other people found it, and helped fix bugs in it and extend it. Time passes. And now your whole business depends on it. For when that happens, we’ve just pushed an update that lets you protect scrapers. This […]
All recipes 30 minutes to cook
The other week we quietly added two tutorials of a new kind to the site, snuck in behind a radical site redesign. They’re instructive recipes, which anyone with a modicum of programming knowledge should be able to easily follow. 1. Introductory tutorial For programmers new to ScraperWiki, to a get an idea of what it […]
Views part 2 – Lincoln Council committees
(This is the second of two posts announcing ScraperWiki “views”. A new feature that Julian, Richard and Tom worked away and secretly launched a couple of months ago. Once you’ve scraped your data, how can you get it out again in just the form you want? See also: Views part 1 – Canadian weather stations.) Lincoln […]
Views part 1 – Canadian weather stations
(This is the first of two posts announcing ScraperWiki “views”. A new feature that Julian, Richard and Tom worked away and secretly launched a couple of months ago. Once you’ve scraped your data, how can you get it out again in just the form you want? See also: Views part 2 – Lincoln Council committees) Canadian […]