Last week I spent a day playing with the screen scraping website Scraperwiki with a class of MA Online Journalism students and a local blogger or two, led by Scraperwiki’s own Anna Powell-Smith. I thought I might take the opportunity to try to explain what screen scraping is through the functionality of Scraperwiki, in journalistic terms.
It’s pretty good.
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This week’s Something for the Weekend is a little different, as it’s a tool for newsgathering rather than publishing. But what a tool.
iMacro is a plugin for Firefox, with paid versions for Internet Explorer or standalone use.
There’s a lot of corporate/technical jargon on the website (“create solutions for web automation”), because, like some of the best web tools (e.g. Twitter), this can be used for so many things it’s hard to describe in a single sentence. But here are some of the headlines: Continue reading
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