[ddj] scraping data with a bookmarklet: Convextra

[Michael Bauer]

One thing that struck me interesting with Convextra is the multi-page
scraping it does. This was unseen to me (never used needlebase though).

Michael

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:56:37PM +0200, mirko.lorenz at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > ________________________________________
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
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