[Python-Dev] Tracker archeology

Daniel (ajax) Diniz ajaksu at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 20:09:05 CET 2009


Daniel (ajax) Diniz wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> I think HTML scraping is a really bad idea. What is it that you
>> specifically want to do with these data?
>
> For starters, free form searches, aggregation and filtering of
> results. The web interface is pretty good for handling individual
> issues, but not so good for adding someone as nosy to lots of issues.

I should have thought of this earlier: I'm downloading A CSV file
(displaying all fields) with all issues and will insert that into a DB
(maybe through my local tracker instance). Thanks for asking the
'think about it' question! :)

Daniel


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