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scraperwiki / spreadsheet-download-tool

A ScraperWiki plugin for downloading data from a box as a CSV or Excel spreadsheet
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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1 DAY: Allow user to download unstructured "grids" if required #36

Closed zarino closed 10 years ago

zarino commented 10 years ago

We are developing a new platform convention for potentially unstructured data, called "grids". A grid is a 2-dimensional array of cells, stored as an HTML <table> tag.

The Spreadsheet Download tool should allow users to download these "grids" as a single multi-page Excel file. It will need to read them in as HTML using requests, loop over the HTML using lxml or similar, and then write the cells into a sheet of an Excel file.

zarino commented 10 years ago

See https://github.com/scraperwiki/spreadsheet-download-tool/pull/40 for pull request.

zarino commented 10 years ago

Pull request merged.

Not yet re-published to the ScraperWiki tool shop.

zarino commented 10 years ago

Needed to add some migration handling for the new _state table schema.

Published now.