Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: html scrapping library
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: The person may mean scraping (to scrape). Didn't help much at least to me. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: html scrapping library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScraperWiki On 02/15/2011 03:12 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: The person may mean scraping (to scrape). Didn't help much at least to me. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: html scrapping library
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 16:04, Ben ben.smith.li...@gmail.com wrote: What does a html scrapping library do? I have a spelling error, it's HTML scraping, it means to read HTML (and few other contents on the web), and extract information using for example CSS elements (that is #id .class:first) will brings the first data inside of id of the element with the class content. Another way is to extract information using XPath (for xml). At the end it's a data mining for specific type of information. -- Ben. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Ido ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] Re: html scrapping library
Hello FPC-Pascal, Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 6:08:29 PM, you wrote: i I have a spelling error, it's HTML scraping, it means to read HTML (and few i other contents on the web), and extract information using for example CSS i elements (that is #id .class:first) will brings the first data inside of i id of the element with the class content. i Another way is to extract information using XPath (for xml). i At the end it's a data mining for specific type of information. Almost all scrapers I had used in the past were built using regular expressions, so the regexp engine should be more than enought. -- Best regards, José ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
