In scraping the scraper I showed how to get scraperwiki data into both Excel and Google Apps Script. More interestingly though, I was talking about data for which others had already done the legwork to create […]
oAuth arghhh.. When I was looking around for a way to easily implement oAuth, and be able to use it from multiple scripts, or even languages (I was originally trying to figure out how to […]
In various posts and articles I’ve been exploring uses of the Google Apps scriptDB datastore. One of the things I’ve been mulling over is how to simplify the whole oAuth experience when dealing with REST queries that need […]
In this post about using the scraperwiki API I covered how to get a list of publicly available scraperWiki data straight into Excel and Google Apps Script. Now you can get the associated data too with just […]
ScraperWiki API I’ve been taking a look at scraperWiki lately. In case you haven’t come across it, it’s a framework to allow you to scrape structured data from web sites using various data manipulation tools and code. […]
In messing around with scriptDB, I covered some usages of scriptDB when it first came out, along with a method of siloing data to keep it organized. Here’s a usage that might be useful for […]
Google currency API Lately for this spot I’ve been selecting APIs that are out of the ordinary, and which allow me to incrementally improve the capability of the REST library. The wrinkle today is that […]
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