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This plugin is available through the Rails plugin mechanism as ''action_cache'' >From the README: === Action Cache update This is a drop in replacement for the Rails Action Cache. When this plugin is installed, the new behavior will take effect without any further configuration. All documentation for the Rails Action Cache is still relevant. === Features

I am doing a research on World Bank (WB) projects on developing countries. To do so, I am scraping their website in order to collect the data I am interested in. The structure of the webpage I want to scrape is the following: 1. List of countries the list of all countries in which WB has developed projects<http://projects.worldbank.org/country?lang=en&page=> 1.1. By clicking on a

Folks, I want to scrape a series of web-page sources for strings like the following: "/en/Ships/A-8605507.html" "/en/Ships/Aalborg-8122830.html" which appear in an href inside an <a> tag inside a <div> tag inside a table. In fact all I want is the (exactly) 7-digit number before ".html". The good news is that as far as I can tell the the <a>

I saw this older post when searching for information: On Feb 16, 5:10 pm, Ingo Weiss <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote: > withfragmentcachingonecancacheparts of a page. However, more often > than not what I would need is the exact opposite approach. I would like > to be able to use action cashing and have a mechanism for telling Rails > to

I''m helping with a gem that is going to published under the contentfree project on rubyforge (http://rubyforge.org/projects/contentfree/). The gem is called "blackbook" and basically it will go and fetch your contacts from the major webmail providers. So far Gmail, Yahoo!, and MSN have been completed. We are trying to finish up with fetching contacts from AOL Webmail. However

Hi, I''m working to scrape and save some ebooks. Mechanize has been wonderful so far. The link I''m having trouble with is this one. http://www.webscription.net/SendZip.aspx?SKU=0671578499&ProductID=379&format=H When I click that in the browser it saves it to a file named H_1632.zip. How do I get that name from the page. I suspect to save this to a file I would just do

I am web scraping a page at http://catalog.ihsn.org/index.php/catalog#_r=&collection=&country=&dtype=&from=1890&page=1&ps=100&sid=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=&to=2017&topic=&view=s&vk= From this url, I have built up a dataframe through the following code: dflist <- map(.x = 1:417, .f = function(x) { Sys.sleep(5) url <-

Hi, I''m doing one module in my site, there I need to import user blog into my site. I can use RSS feeds to read the blog information but using RSS feeds I''m not getting entire information. So, I need to scrape the user blog page. How to scrape a pages without knowing its html structure of a page? Please anyone can help me for this issue. Thanks in advance. -- You received this

Hi List, I am trying to leverage my knowledge of R in trying to use it for tasks that may not make R the best choice for these tasks. I wish to automate a web scraping task, which requires a multi-step procedure: 1) log in to a website 2) Go to a particular page 3) From the drop down menu, click on a particular link 4) From the tabulated data presented, choose relevant information based on a

Hi, I am starting coding in r and one of the things that i want to do is to scrape some data from the web. The problem that I am having is that I cannot get passed the disclaimer page (which produces a session cookie). I have been able to collect some ideas and combine them in the code below but I dont get passed the disclaimer page. I am trying to agree the disclaimer with the postForm and write

I'm trying to scrape football projections from accuscore.com for the different positions (right now the projections are set to zeros, but that will change). I can get the QB projections, but I can't get the projections for any of the other positions (e.g., RB). How can I get the RB projections? I'm not sure what the actual website for the RB and other projections is. When I go to

Hi there Does anyone know if Amazon.com has any sort of server side script that tries to block scraping activities? I first noticed that if I didn?t change the agent alias, it would fetch a page exactly like the normal one, but without the intial search field(maybe a silly way to prevent scraping). Then after it, I changed to some other alias, and submit a search. I got the result page as

Chad reported that he was seeing a regression in cifs-utils-6.6. Prior to that, cifs.upcall was able to find credcaches in non-default FILE: locations, but with the rework of that code, that ability was lost. Unfortunately, the krb5 library design doesn't really take into account the fact that we might need to find a credcache in a process that isn't descended from the session. When the

Hi, I have my rails sites tricked out with capistrano, and backgroundrb, so I can easily use the ant tasks, but I would like to be able to start and stop backgroundrb from within rails. I have a few reasons for this: 1. Using fastcgi, backgroundrb would start under the apache user and the same mod_security context as apache, instead of my developer account which has many more privileges. 2.

Hi all, I am scraping a table off of another site and inserting it onto my site. you can see an example on the initial page at: http://mthosts.heroku.com. I''m referring to the green box with the snowbird weather and snowfall information. this box has been scraped off of the snowbird site at: http://www.snowbird.com/ski_board/snowreport.php The problem is that on the snowbird site it

hi all, I'm working on scrapping some website data to build a database. Under most cases, I can use package XML to get the dataset. However, some of the website doesn't give a explicit address of the downloaded tables. To be more specific, for example, I'm interested in the website http://ets.aeso.ca/ The data we are scraping is the "Pool Weekly Summary" under the

Hello Folks, I'm working on trying to scrape my first web site and ran into a issue because I'm really don't know anything about regular expressions in R. library(XML) library(RCurl) site <- "http://thisorthat.com/leader/month" site.doc <- htmlParse(site, ?, xmlValue) At the ?, I realize that I need to insert a regex command which will decipher the contents of the

Hi there Does anyone know if Amazon.com has any sort of server side script that tries to block scraping activities? I first noticed that if I didn?t change the agent alias, it would fetch a page exactly like the normal one, but without the intial search field(maybe a silly way to prevent scraping). Then after it, I changed to some other alias, and submit a search. I got the result page as

Hola. Tengo que bajarme varias tablas del INE y necesito interactuar con el navegador. Ví el fantástico post que escribió Gregorio Serrano (que la tierra le sea leve), en http://www.grserrano.net/wp/2014/01/relenium-el-siguiente-nivel-de-web-scraping-con-r/ y estoy intentando reproducirlo para aprender como funciona relenium Pero relenium me da error después de if(!require(relenium))

Hi, All: ????? What would you suggest one use to read the data on members of the US Congress and their positions on net neutrality from "https://www.battleforthenet.com/scoreboard" into R? ????? I found recommendations for the "rvest" package to "Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages".? I tried the following: URL <-