Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot)

Dave Angel davea at davea.name
Fri May 24 15:41:27 EDT 2013


On 05/24/2013 01:32 PM, logan.c.graham at gmail.com wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm learning Python

Welcome.

> and I'm experimenting with different projects -- I like learning by doing. I'm wondering if you can help me here:
>
>na
>
> What this is is a publicly-accessible webpage

No, it's just a jpeg file, an image.

> that's a simple database of people who have used the website. Ideally what I'd like to end up with is an excel spreadsheet with data from the columns #fb, # vids, fb sent?, # email tm.
>
> I'd like to use Python to do it -- crawl the page and extract the data in a usable way.
>

But there's no page to crawl.  You may have to start by finding an ocr 
to interpret the image as characters.  Or find some other source for 
your data.

> I'd love your input! I'm just a learner.
>


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DaveA



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