Blind Ape Seo

The path of the ape

How to scrape without programming

Have a look at this list of tools for hacking stuff together on the fly.

A lot of the times, these tools either suffice or they serve to proove a concept. Yahoo pipes, for example is an easy way to throw together a scraper that can then be made more sophisticated when coding it for real.

I especially enjoyed the article on using Google spreadsheet to scrape wikipedia.

Enjoy.


1 Comment so far

  1. Victory July 30th, 2009 8:01 am

    I book marked this under “scrapable” when i found it posted on /r/programming.

    Speaking of scraping, if you wanted a suggestion for a topic to blog about, i would be interested in how other people are scraping twitter search like

    http://twitter.com/search?q=health+care

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