[ddj] scraping data with a bookmarklet: Convextra

Thu Apr 11 12:56:37 UTC 2013

I wish we would have Needlebase back. Would have solved a lot of issues,
but was probably too good, e.g. it was possible to scrape page by page with
relative ease.

2013/4/11 <SMachlis at computerworld.com>

> Agreed, although if you're only scraping a couple of pages it's not too
> much of a problem to select all, copy, and paste into a local spreadsheet.
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> Indeed and I would still recommend it over a purely web based service. It
> would be great if the scraper extension would allow local saving - instead
> of google docs export.
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> Michael
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