[okfn-labs] Google spreadsheet importer for PyBossa

Fri Sep 7 07:10:01 UTC 2012

Hi everyone,

I'm really happy to see how PyBossa is growing!!! :-)

About adding this feature to PyBossa: I totally agree! I'll be at
OKFestival, so if more people from this list are coming and you want to
participate, we can work together about this feature in Finland. In any
case, I'll be implementing this really soon!

Cheers,

Daniel

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Gregor Aisch <gregor.aisch at okfn.org>wrote:

>
> Am 31.08.2012 um 10:50 schrieb Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
>
> > On 29 August 2012 08:43, Gregor Aisch <gregor.aisch at okfn.org> wrote:
> >> FYI:
> >>
> >> I've put together a tiny app that lets you bulk import PyBossa tasks
> from a
> >> Google spreadsheet. Each row is interpreted as task, the first row is
> >> interpreted as header and will be used as keys.
> >>
> >> http://pybossa-spreadsheet-importer.vis4.net/
> >>
> >> https://github.com/gka/pybossa-spreadsheet-importer
> >>
> >> I think this is the first of two steps that enables non-tech folks such
> as
> >> journalists to create their own crowdsourcing app.
> >
> > Agreed - this was a top priority and great to see it done. I'm
> > wondering if we can merge this code (I think it is mainly HTML and JS)
> > straight into PyBossa core -- putting it on e.g. the app admin page
> > would be a natural location. What do you think?
>
> Absolutely. I wish I'd have deeper insights on how to add features to
> PyBossa directly. I just wanted to have the importer working and hacked the
> whole thing together in about 4 hours.
>
> Actually the core functionality (loading & parsing of the spreadsheet,
> firing API calls for each task) is written in Python. JS only pings the
> current status.
>
> Of course it would make *a lot* sense to do the bulk import directly on
> the database instead of firing HTTP requests for every single task.
>
> Looking forward to see this in PyBossa..
>
>
> >
> >> The second step would be to allow people to create task presenters w/o
> >> (JavaScript) coding. I think this could be done by combining a WYSIWYG
> html
> >> editor with a clever JS library that replaces task template variables
> and
> >> parses the html for form elements.
> >
> > Agreed. I think the basic apps are quite simple. I also wonder whether
> > its the kind of thing where we can generate a basic template for
> > someone and they can then tweak (it's a way to get into programming -
> > in the way that I've seen people start to learn PHP tweaking wordpress
> > templates!)
> >
> >> For instance if someone puts <img src="##ImageUrl##" /> into a task
> >> presenter template (which would be possible from a WYSIWYG editor), the
> JS
> >> which loads task and task presenter could replace ##ImageUrl## with the
> >> value stored in task.info.ImageUrl.
> >>
> >> After I'm done with both I'll try to write a short 5-minute-guide for
> >> creating pybossa crowdsourcing apps, perhaps supported by a short
> >> screencast.
> >
> > That would be *amazing*.
> >
> > Rufus
>
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