[ddj] scraping data with a bookmarklet: Convextra

[Rufus Pollock]

I'm really interested in the browser extension option - I think it has
quite a bit to recommend it (you can do full xhr, access now to good
local storage).

I actually spent a while last year playing with the chrome scraper and
looking at how one could update it (in particular, chrome now supports
ways to add panels to the "developer" section).

Doing work on local storage in the browser (all of this now available
from extensions) as part of the Data Explorer
(http://explorer.okfnlabs.org/) indicate to me that supporting local
saving should not be too hard :-)

Rufus

On 11 April 2013 09:38, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 01:05:57PM -0400, SMachlis at computerworld.com wrote:
>> If you use Chrome, "Scraper" is a nice extension for scraping data as well.
>
> 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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