Hi Björn, Mea culpa. I remember reading about your tutorial on this list and thinking "Cool, we can't have too many tutorials on using Factor". I bookmarked it, thinking I'd get back to it sometime when I had more spare time. I had compartmentalized it in my mind as "Factor tutorial", while completely forgetting what the tutorial was about!
Anyway, thanks for your quick response. Now that I have a specific need, I'll try harder to find that spare time to revisit your tutorial. -John On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/9/5 John Porubek <jporu...@gmail.com>: >> I'm re-posting this message since I didn't get an answer the first >> time and I'm nothing if not persistent! >> >> Let me recast the original question differently. Is there a fairly >> easy way, using Factor, to scrape a blog website for a list of blog >> titles? This seems like it would be a really useful tool for finding >> information, assuming the author chose fairly meaningful titles. >> >> I'm no expert in web technology, but it occurs to me, as I think about >> this problem, that it might be kind of difficult in the general case. >> I have no idea how similar different blogs might be. For now, I'm most >> interested in the special case of John Benediktsson's "Re:Factor" >> blog. > > Hi John, > > Yours truly have written a tutorial for scraping with Factor available here: > > https://github.com/bjourne/playground-factor/wiki/Parsing-gmane-with-factor > > Though it's much a rough work in progress which I might never finish > because I get bored quickly. Maybe you can salvage some information > from it. The general strategy for scraping is: > > IN: USE: html.parser.analyzer > IN: "http://www.factorcode.org/"; scrape-html > ! Get stuff from the tag seq, eg. > IN: "title" find-between-first first text>> > "Factor programming language" > > > -- > mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist > http://www.bjornlindqvist.se/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
