Hello, Balthazar

Great idea. I am new to scrapy and now struggling to start my first web 
project. Could you let me know if it is available now? I am surely looking 
forward to it.

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:56:47 AM UTC+8, Balthazar Rouberol wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've recently been offered to write a 50-70 pages beginner's guide on 
> Scrapy which would be aimed at non
> Python users and web developers who are building apps relying on data 
> scraped from the web.
>
> I would be happy to know what the Scrapy community thinks about this 
> project, and to hear any of your ideas!
>
> I'm still working on the outline, but so far, I'm thinking about the 
> following:
> • Install + development environment setup
> • Writing first project
> • Define the data you want to collect
> • Scraping a template based website
> • Exporting data to generic formats (XML, JSON, CSV, JSON, YAML, etc) and 
> writing your own item exporter
> • Storing the data into database (mongoDB?, PostgreSQL?, ...)
> • Scraping an RSS/ATOM feed
> • Scraping a highly consulted website
> • Writing a middleware to limit scraping to recent pages (aka; avoid 
> scraping a static page multiple times)
> • Scraping AJAX pages / using AJAX calls as an API
> • Scraping JS-generated pages (ghost.py? webkit?)
> • Scraping in the cloud (I'm thinking Scrapy Cloud and Heroku or OpenShift)
>
> If you think I've missed a major point, if you have any questions and/or 
> suggestions, I'd be happy to hear it.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> B
>

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