Comments on: Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets

By: SpreadsheetPro

SpreadsheetPro — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:10:16 +0000

Very nice, elaborate tutorial. Decided to write one myself on leveraging ImportHTML() to make a cool map visualization of facebook usage data.

Let me know what you think: http://spreadsheetpro.net/using-importhtml-to-scrape-facebook-usage-numbers/

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:11:49 +0000

Can’t get my pipes to work. any ideas? i can get it in the correct format using this =QUERY(ImportHtml(“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_Kingdom_settlements_by_population”,”table”,2),”SELECT Col1, Col2, Col3 LABEL Col1 ‘rank’, Col2 ‘city’, Col3 ‘population’”)
in google docs, but it is not showing up correcting in pipes. Appreciate any help!!

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By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:20:04 +0000

Awesome. Now I just need to work out how to do it on a private (ie logon required) site, as I have loads of data i could manipulate that i can’t really get to otherwise, any ideas?

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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:25:34 +0000

[...] One of my most successful posts in terms of lifetime traffic numbers has been a recipe for scraping data from a Wikipedia page, pulling it into a Google spreadsheet, publishing it as CSV, pulling it into a Yahoo Pipe, geo-coding it, publishing it as a KML file, displaying the KML in Google maps and embedding the map in another page (which could in principle be the original WIkipedia page): Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets. [...]

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