- This site exists to demonstrate some basic scraping techniques, as well as provide examples of real world challenges that scraper authors often encounter. + This site exists to demonstrate some basic scraping techniques, as well as provide examples of real world challenges that scraper authors often encounter. It was primarily written to assist with examples and documentation for spatula but feel free to use it for whatever you want. Just be nice, the site is hosted on a free Heroku dyno.
+While other sites with a similar purpose exist, they often omit some of the common complications that can arise in scraping. The eventual goal of this site is to serve as a test suite of sorts for handling edge cases.
+This site is the work of James Turk. James has been getting paid to write web scrapers for over 10 years, mainly on the Open States project. This work is created independently of any employer, past or present.
-The full source for this site is available on GitHub. + +
The full source for this site is available on GitHub. + +
If you're wondering about what all the nonsense is about... here you go.