Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scraping tool

Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scrapi... by merraksh on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:46AM (#12049260)

I wonder if this was submitted after reading today's submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047234) about (real) Portia spiders and googling the subject.

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Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scrapi... by unsettledtck on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:00AM (#12049342)

We did indeed model our Portia on the real spiders. We'd like to think our version is a wee bit cuter...

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Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scrapi... by david-given on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:34AM (#12049554)

After finding this picture of a real Portia, I have to disagree.

Look at those big, soulful black eyes...

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Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scrapi... by jsargiox on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:47AM (#12049630)

I didn't know there was a real "portia" spider... the things you learn everyday

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Re:Scrapely: The brains behind Portia, our visual web scrapi... by pavel_lishin on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:42AM (#12049594)

I wonder if that submission was in any way related to Peter Watts' novel "Echopraxia"...

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