Dear Amrit,Are you sure? I've posted the github link too, and a quick check through the source makes it seem legit.
It doesn't seem to be a joke; it was just unfortunately timed. BTW, Kimono also looks interesting: https://www.kimonolabs.com/ Regards, Pranesh Amrit Pal <[email protected]> [2014-04-02 15:42:19 +0530]:
That's a really well-executed April fool's joke. Oh, my dreams. http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/21xk0v/portia_an_open_source_visual_web_scraper_from/ On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote:Dear all, There's a very-promising new 'visual web scraper' tool (i.e., a GUI for scrapy) called Portia that might be worth checking out: http://goo.gl/x1S2Hh On github: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia I am also very late in discovering "Autoscraper", again a tool made by Scrapinghub: http://scrapinghub.com/autoscraping which has Slybot, a free / open source tool, as its backend: https://github.com/scrapy/slybot Cheers, Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org ------------------- Access to Knowledge Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School M: +1 520 314 7147 | W: http://yaleisp.org PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranesh_prakash
-- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org ------------------- Access to Knowledge Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School M: +1 520 314 7147 | W: http://yaleisp.org PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranesh_prakash
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