Comments on: Martin Weller on Tony Hirst's Stringle

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:31:46 +0000

Mozenda is a fantastic screen-scraping program. Its ability to carry out different actions on various websites so it could later do everything I need automatically is invaluable.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:07:45 +0000

Nate, never too late Normally I stip out urls that seem like ‘plugs’ for products, but yours is on topic and a welcome part of the conversation. I look forward to investigating it further. Cheers, Scott

By: Nate Graves

Nate Graves — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:01:17 +0000

Scott,

Looks like I’m a little late on this topic, but I thought I would mention that the company I work for, Mozenda, just recently released a tool that not only allows you to create feeds from unstructured data, but also provides an API to access that data. So, its kind of taking a Dapper, OpenKapow, or ScreenScaper and putting it on top of something like Mashery. We hope that by giving people the ability to reuse their data through API, it will make that data even more helpful.

By: Michael Penney

Michael Penney — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:00:36 +0000

Hi Scott, regarding rip, mix, feed, I thought you might like to check out the new Web Services API out in Moodle 1.8 Beta (just released):

“Web Services API – Catalyst, Richard Wyles

The Moodle Network code includes an XML-RPC call dispatcher that can expose the WHOLE Moodle API to trusted hosts. We will building on this in further versions but you can start using it now if you need to.”

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Web_Services_API