Portia: Web scraping for non-coders

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear all,
There's a very-promising new 'visual web scraper' tool (i.e., a GUI for
scrapy) called Portia that might be worth checking out:

http://goo.gl/x1S2Hh

On github:
https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia

I am also very late in discovering "Autoscraper", again a tool made by
Scrapinghub:
http://scrapinghub.com/autoscraping

which has Slybot, a free / open source tool, as its backend:
https://github.com/scrapy/slybot

Cheers,
Pranesh

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[Amrit Pal]

That's a really well-executed April fool's joke. Oh, my dreams. 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/21xk0v/portia_an_open_source_visual_web_scraper_from/

[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear Amrit,
Are you sure? I've posted the github link too, and a quick check
through the source makes it seem legit.

It doesn't seem to be a joke; it was just unfortunately timed.

BTW, Kimono also looks interesting:
https://www.kimonolabs.com/

Regards,
Pranesh

Amrit Pal <mailfo...@gmail.com> [2014-04-02 15:42:19 +0530]: