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web scraping tool for website data

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February 26, 2012 at 6:09 pm #14722

Daisy (Domínguez) Singh (she)
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Hi, folks. I got this question through H-HISTBIBL and thought I’d ask if any of you have suggestions I could pass along. Thanks, Daisy

From: Charles D’Aniello lclcharl@buffalo.edu
Subject: Recommendation for or Experience with Web Scraping Tool Requested
Date: 22 February 2012

I’m certain this is outside of most of our collective experiences; but I have a request to offer some guidance on a Web scraping tool for harvesting numeric data from Web sites. The intent is to harvest data that can be saved to a spreadsheet. Does anyone have anything to offer in this regard? Thanks –

February 27, 2012 at 8:52 am #23410

Steven Ovadia (he/him)
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I’ve had these bookmarked for a while but I’ve never used them:

1. http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-collecting-the-data
2. http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~luis/seminar/XML_presentation_LC.pdf

They seem pretty thorough, though.

February 27, 2012 at 12:54 pm #23411

Daisy (Domínguez) Singh (she)
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Thanks!
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