Difference between revisions of "How to set up a data stream"
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Justin's Dashboard relies heavily on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss RSS], which is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed web feed] format which informs you when someone has posted new content to the Internet. However, there is a lot of data on the Internet that does not come as RSS feeds. Dapper helps to process unstructured information from websites (in HTML format), to clean it and transform it into structured XML. | Justin's Dashboard relies heavily on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss RSS], which is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed web feed] format which informs you when someone has posted new content to the Internet. However, there is a lot of data on the Internet that does not come as RSS feeds. Dapper helps to process unstructured information from websites (in HTML format), to clean it and transform it into structured XML. | ||
| − | The use of Dapper is [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_quest_to_unlock_web_data.php described in a post] by Alex Iskold. If you go to the [http://www.dapper.net Dapper website], it is at first unclear where you should click to find the data collection tool. Go to the bottom right of the page where you will find a link to the [http://www.dapper.net/dapp-factory.jsp Dapp Factory]. That link opens up a form in which you can enter the | + | The use of Dapper is [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_quest_to_unlock_web_data.php described in a post] by Alex Iskold. If you go to the [http://www.dapper.net Dapper website], it is at first unclear where you should click to find the data collection tool. Go to the bottom right of the page where you will find a link to the [http://www.dapper.net/dapp-factory.jsp Dapp Factory]. That link opens up a form in which you can enter the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url URL] of the website you are interested in. |
==Pipes== | ==Pipes== | ||
