I wonder if it would be easier to modify the SmalltalkHub source to produce a JSON or STON file you could download. cheers -ben
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Hernán Morales Durand < [email protected]> wrote: > > 2015-01-19 15:07 GMT-03:00 Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]>: > >> Hernán wrote: >> >My goal is to search the contents of the Description form field in >> SmalltalkHub. >> >I don't know if matches the design and idea of Hubcap (really nice >> package BTW). >> >I wonder if anyone (Torsten?) tried to download all package metadata >> first and perform off-line search? >> >> What I did was take a look at mcx history and try to derive the latest >> one, and then use the >> Moose mczimporter to derive a list of signatures of (possibly) sent >> messages. >> The idea was to find out when packages change in a non-compatible way. >> >> > Sorry Stephan, I wasn't clear enough. I want to search over SmalltalkHub > projects metadata, not the Monticello metadata. > > When you click "Edit infos" in SmalltalkHub you see a web form with a > "Description" field. > That's the data I want to gather. > I know it could be done with web scraping, the question is if someone > tried to do it before. > > Hernán > > >
