Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ...
by austinjp on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @05:53AM
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Nice. Nasty, but nice :)
I can't help but notice a small bug.... Driulis Gonzalez for example has medalled 4 times, but your script gives his count as only 3. Similarly Gévrise Émane isn't listed by your script. Something to do with split tables cells I suspect.
Still, it's inspiring. I've often used bash and perl to scrape data from web pages. I'll definitely consider JS in future.
I can't help but notice a small bug.... Driulis Gonzalez for example has medalled 4 times, but your script gives his count as only 3. Similarly Gévrise Émane isn't listed by your script. Something to do with split tables cells I suspect.
Still, it's inspiring. I've often used bash and perl to scrape data from web pages. I'll definitely consider JS in future.