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Chrome App / Extension for Working with Data incl Scraping #46

Open rufuspollock opened 11 years ago

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

An extension combining:

Scraping of data
Working with it
Saving it
Notes

Creating a sidebar pane in an extension

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10100540/chrome-extension-inject-sidebar-into-page

Selector gadget: https://github.com/iterationlabs/selectorgadget/

http://docs.jquery.com/API/1.1.2/DOM/Traversing/Selectors#XPath_Selectors

Existing work

Data Explorer: https://github.com/okfn/dataexplorer - has many of the features but no scraping and not an extension
Recline CSV Viewer extension: https://github.com/rgrp/chrome-csv-viewer
Excellent "scraper" extensioned (no longer under development it seems): https://github.com/mnmldave/scraper
Browser Farm #31

mattfullerton commented 10 years ago

This might be useful: http://medialab.github.io/artoo/ (artoo - The client-side scraping companion)

On the page there's a nice explanation of why they think this is a necessary/useful tool compared to normal scraping techniques.