Hey, I just saw this. A plugin api seems like a decent idea for web scrapers, and I believe it'd be easy enough to support ruby and python via the pyobjc/rubycocoa bridges - at least in the python bridge, there are no problems defining a pyobjc subclass of an ObjC class...
If possible, it'd be a very good idea to incorporate Alf Eaton's work on javascript, since it seems like there's lots of work in Zotero's scrapers we could be using. I just wish I had time to work on using external javascript in web views. There's a coding headstart about it on apple's developer site that I've had on my 'to-read' list for a long time... I think the pattern goes something like this - you get the script object from a webframe (or webview), and you can have it execute any code you want, and that code can access the page content, and could conceivably change properties in objc objects you let it know about. I never got a chance to look closely at Alf's work. His code is here: http://code.google.com/p/jqscrapers/ and his post about it is here: http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001560.html -mike On Jan 19, 2008 11:29 AM, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How hard would it be to have a plugin API for web groups? The biggest > problem I see ATM is using an enum for types, since that can't be > supplemented at runtime. The BDSKWebParser API is pretty simple, > otherwise. > > It would be further cool if they could be implemented in python/ruby/ > perl since users are more likely to be able to use those; maybe we > could provide a generic Obj-C wrapper that launches a script. > > I know in the past we've decided not to implement a plugin API for > parsers, but it seems like plugins could be a bigger potential win for > the web group. A more complicated approach would be allowing search > group plugins, but I think our threaded architecture would make that > too hard. > > Worth asking the users list to see if anyone would care? Papers seems > to get a fair amount of mileage out of user-written plugins, and I > think the Books program uses python plugins. > > -- > adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-develop mailing list > Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop > -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
