[ddj] scraping data with a bookmarklet: Convextra

Thu Apr 11 08:39:36 UTC 2013

Hi,

I tried with one page and it worked nicely.

Did you get a table out? - might be worth alerting their support.

Michael

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:04:13AM +0200, Tommy Kaas wrote:
> Michael,
> Did you try http://convextra.com/ - and what was the result?
> I have tested it on a handful of pages - without success. Most of the
> times, I got an "Export failed" message. Only once it extracted something,
> but the extraction was incomplete.
> Tommy
> 
> 2013/4/10 Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just discovered: http://convextra.com/ - it allows you to install a
> > bookmarklet and scrape webpages without coding - simply by analyzing the
> > structure.
> >
> > Michael
> >
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