Fri, 27 Mar 2009
Pycon09: "Scrape the Web" is over
For my attendees, and anyone else following along at home:
Thanks for coming! I had a great time at the talk, and I already wrote a little bit about how much fun I had. I wanted to be sure to conclude the tutorial with some next steps for you all.
The presentation
Some crucial links:
- My presentation: the actual PDF I used
- Sample code: in the examples directory (note you can "svn checkout" that too)
The demos that didn't work
There were two demos that were less smooth than they ought to have been.
- Selenium RC, and
- WordPress Hash Cash.
For WordPress Hash Cash, there's the lovely simple code I wrote that uses python-spidermonkey to post comments to a blog with HashCash. One such blog is online at http://pycon09.asheesh.org/hashcash/ ; please try it! (The reason it didn't work was some heavy load on my server during the talk.)
For Selenium RC, you can see the sample code in examples/seleniumrc/. There is a README in that directory that explains clearly how to run that code. (It didn't work for the same reason.)
The future
I'm available for questions, both hands-on at PyCon and by email after the weekend. Just email me!
