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Re:My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV by Aschwin on Friday August 28, 2009 @06:00PM (#792375)
Oh my, this rocks. What would be even cooler is a library to use these functions. That would beat me to it, since I was thinking about a general data interface for websites too. If I could implement your effort into my code (PHP) that would be so awesome. Anyhow, nice idea though.
Re:My project: CSVGet -- Get structured data from sites as CSV by fizx on Friday August 28, 2009 @06:03PM (#792380)
http://github.com/fizx/parsley/tree/master is a C library which represents the core of the parsing functionality. A PHP binding is quite possible, and indeed, there already are bindings for Python and Ruby. In fact, I might just go look at how PHP bindings are done in general...