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Extract and structure unformatted data without prior system training (convextra.com)
33 points by mazsa on April 10, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Really nice idea, I usually have to resort to some Javascript hackery to do this kind of thing (or BeautifulSoup). One click is awesome.

A simple spoken script over the tutorial video by a voice actor would add significant credibility. There are a bunch of sites where voice over professionals will do a really good <60second clip for $100-200. Well worth it!


Nice!

For those who want a wide ranging overview of web scraping in Python:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wxGESwQSA


This reminds me of Needlebase from ITA before they got swallowed by Google. Needlbase had a bit less magic and a bit more data modelling, judging by that little demo.

Video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Gzlq4zSDk


This is really great - had I known about it a week ago I would have used it for a small project. (I ended up scripting it out with httrack). Definitely bookmarked for future use!


I see it useful for monitoring competitors. It would be great to have a kind of charting feature to visualize data à la webnumbr


Very nice idea. Can you give more detail about what kind of machine learning you employed?




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