Category Archives: users

Up in the Air with ScraperWiki and Tropo

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

We came across this blog post a few days ago from these cool guys at Tropo in Florida, and thought you’d be interested in how they’ve used ScraperWiki. Tropo is a simple API for adding voice and other goodies to … Continue reading →

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Mapping @TahrirSupplies

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

One of our users I recently met in New York said ScraperWiki is “a great tool for hacktivism”. Because of this we have a lot of ‘hacktivists’ in our community. One such ‘hacktivist’ is Thomas Levine. He’s recently scraped @TahrirSupplies, … Continue reading →

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Meet Carl Plant – He Wants an Army of Armchair Health Researchers

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

I think more can be done with NHS data. We are seeing health data being published in such places as the NHS Information Centre, the Office for National Statistics, data.gov.uk, health observatories and various institutions such as the Royal College … Continue reading →

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Meet all our users!!!!

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

As I have been looking for your great guys to highlight your work, passion and scraping oddities, so your time has come to explore the craven habits of the new age data digging programmers! You can now search for people … Continue reading →

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Amazing Places Scrapers Go – The Big Clean

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Earlier this month, there’s been some underground scraping action happening in Central Europe. We noticed this spark of activity and upon further investigation it was revealed to be a spill over from The Big Clean. At the beginning of this … Continue reading →

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Hi, my name’s Zarino

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

So when Nicola asked me to write a Friday post introducing myself on the ScraperWiki blog, I never thought I’d be writing it during such a momentous few days. I was meant to entertain and beguile you with talk of my … Continue reading →

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Driving the Digger Down Under

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

G’day, Henare here from the OpenAustralia Foundation – Australia’s open data, open government and civic hacking charity. You might have heard that we were planning to have a hackfest here in Sydney last weekend. We decided to focus on writing … Continue reading →

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Conquering Copyright and Scaling Open Data Projects – How Chris Taggart is Counting Culture

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Chris Taggart is a founder of OpenlyLocal and OpenCorporates. He says “When people ask what I do I say I open up data, sometimes whether people like it or not.” In the beginning he didn’t really expect much to come … Continue reading →

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This one goes out to the ScraperWikians we love!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

From business licenses in Islington (London, UK) to Oakland (Calinfornia, USA), councillors in India, presidential engagements in Ireland, newspapers in America and planning applications in Westoxon; here at ScraperWiki we are saluting our users who are looting the web of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Minions – Young Rewired State

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

We’re an open platform and as with open door policies it’s hard to keep track of who’s come in. We’ve had an influx of youths. But no need to worry! There’ll be no loud music playing, hoody wearing, communicating in … Continue reading →

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