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== What people are working on ==
 
* Connecting with Python to feeds (RSS) see [[Feedparser]]
 
(example: taking the text of the latest blog entry & put it into a database... eventually to use as a basis of a visualisation (tech tbd, [[Processing]]?))
 
* Spreadsheet data (Data by countries) ?? [[CIA World Factbook]] (also as basis for possible [[Processing]] based visualisation)
 
* [[Greasemonkey]] Add-on -- INSERTS an image in every webpage, and now turning this into a full-fledged [[Firefox Extension]]
 
* Producing Synthaesthetic Stimuli: Analog electronics / Sound card driven (piezo)
 
* Generating movies from net data -- turning a search into a template for a narrative / web page. Using scripts to send text through Google Translation (how to automate / script?)
 
* [[BeautifulSoup]]
* [[http://codespeak.net/icalendar/ iCalendar Parser]] for Python


Getting the text of a page
Getting the text of a page


http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/9f6278ee2a2e4564
http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/9f6278ee2a2e4564

Latest revision as of 15:53, 25 November 2008

What people are working on

  • Connecting with Python to feeds (RSS) see Feedparser

(example: taking the text of the latest blog entry & put it into a database... eventually to use as a basis of a visualisation (tech tbd, Processing?))

  • Producing Synthaesthetic Stimuli: Analog electronics / Sound card driven (piezo)
  • Generating movies from net data -- turning a search into a template for a narrative / web page. Using scripts to send text through Google Translation (how to automate / script?)

Getting the text of a page

http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/9f6278ee2a2e4564