Comments on: Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets

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By: data scraping « DevXS-UCAS

data scraping « DevXS-UCAS — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:41:39 +0000

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By: Scraping tabular data from the web | visurus

Scraping tabular data from the web | visurus — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:52:43 +0000

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By: jmagnone

jmagnone — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:43:49 +0000

Hi, this is pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I have been working on a plugin for WordPress that helps to import data into individual WP posts.
I think you can try it or might be useful. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpsync/

I am envisioning to use your technique so I can build a site quickly from data processed with pipes using your approach. Thanks.

By: How to be a data journalist | Tech2Crave

How to be a data journalist | Tech2Crave — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:19:35 +0000

[...] like Yahoo! Pipes and the Firefox plugin OutWit Hub. If the data is in a HTML table you can even write a one-line formula in Google Spreadsheets to pull it in. Failing all the above, you might just have to record it by hand – but whatever you do, make [...]

By: How can I get tabular data from Wikipedia into a Google Spreadsheet? - Quora

How can I get tabular data from Wikipedia into a Google Spreadsheet? - Quora — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:53:52 +0000

[...] I mourn for Wikipedia Tony Hirst wrote an amazingly useful and comprehensive blog post on this: see http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/10…This answer .Please specify the necessary improvements. Edit Link Text Show answer summary [...]

By: What are the most interesting things done with Wikipedia data? - Quora

What are the most interesting things done with Wikipedia data? - Quora — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:44:39 +0000

[...] to be very interesting. It's much too long to post straight on here in a comment: http://blog.ouseful.info/2008/10…This answer .Please specify the necessary improvements. Edit Link Text Show answer summary [...]

By: How to be a data journalist « beatsnpeace

How to be a data journalist « beatsnpeace — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:16:03 +0000

[...] like Yahoo! Pipes and the Firefox plugin OutWit Hub. If the data is in a HTML table you can evenwrite a one-line formula in Google Spreadsheets to pull it in. Failing all the above, you might just have to record it by hand – but whatever you do, make [...]

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:25:20 +0000

Arghh – no – typo.. well spotted: thanks:-)

By: Freelance Unbound

Freelance Unbound — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:29:36 +0000

FYI: The formula for scraping with a Google Spreadsheet has changed (or there is a typo here).

It’s =importhtml(“”,”table”,N) – ie there’s an “L” after the HTM.

Super useful post though – thanks…