Very interesting theme. Bespoke SCRAPING ability is almost my definition of what decent net use is. I mean, isn't it most of it about the search for information? Too much of the time you gotta recreate the stuff, so you don't, as you don't have the hours. Far better to scrape what you need.
TiddlyClip is extremely good but IMO there was still much manual work to do. That is why I'm looking forward to the next version. It avoids some issues set API's have. An issue that comes up on good scrapers (using an API rather than ad hoc jabbing) is licensing rapidly comes up as an issue. I could not tell you how many times API based scrapers of IMDB have been challenged to pay license fees. Many. Best wishes Josiah On Friday, 19 January 2018 17:43:42 UTC+1, Abraham Samma wrote: > > Yes I've checked out TiddlyClip. A very useful thing. Thanks for making > this. It definitely complements what I have in mind, at least on the > desktop browser. > > On Friday, January 19, 2018 at 3:02:36 AM UTC+3, BJ wrote: >> >> Hi Abraham, >> Maybe you would be interested to have you work inter-operate with >> tiddlyclip. Info about tiddlyclip is at tiddlyclip.tiddlyspot.com. This >> is somewhat out of date as I have been adding a lot of new things lately. >> The lasted version (pre release) of the tw plugin is at >> https://github.com/buggyj/tiddlyclip-plugin/releases and the latest >> version of the browser plugin is at >> https://github.com/buggyj/tiddlyclip/releases. >> All the best >> >> BJ >> >> On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 6:41:15 PM UTC, Abraham Samma wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Recently I have been experimenting with building an external service for >>> scraping and converting web articles into readable versions that can be >>> added into a tiddlywiki. For those who use Firefox's Pocket app, it is the >>> same concept, just for TW5 instead. >>> >>> I believe this would benefit a lot of folks who read around a lot but >>> find it difficult to copy and paste entire articles into TW5. The wiki >>> becomes a kind of human-run archiving system for the web. >>> >>> The API works quite well. All that's left is to integrate it with TW5. I >>> hope to share a demo with you all when it is done. Opinions and suggestions >>> are welcomed. >>> >>> In the meantime, have a good one. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/9884888f-e4b7-442c-9948-a0b13d899abd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
