From jim at well.com Tue Jan 6 00:13:07 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:13:07 -0800 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday January 8, 2009: Scrape the Web by Asheesh Laroia Message-ID: <1231197187.7760.348.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday January 8, 2009 NOTE BayPIGgies is NOT meeting at Google this month (or next) but at the Tech Museum on Market Street in San Jose (details below) Tonight's talk is Scrape the Web: Strategies for programming websites that don't expect it by Asheesh Laroia Do you find yourself faced with websites that have data you need to extract? Would your life be simpler if you could programmatically input data into web applications, even those tuned to resist interaction by bots? This talk presents the basics of web scraping and then dives into the details of different methods and where they are most applicable. You'll leave with an understanding of when to apply different tools and learn about a "heavy hammer" for screen scraping used by a project for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Attendees should bring a laptop, if possible, to try the examples and optionally take notes. http://svn.asheesh.org/svn/public/20082009/pycon-proposal.rst Meetings start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. tonight's Newbie Nugget: Code Coverage Basics by Benjamin Sargeant NEW LOCATION FOR JANUARY 8, 2009 The Tech Museum of Innovation 201 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 ROOM: "Large Group Meeting Room", which is on the right as one enters the building from the Park Street entrance. NOTE: doors close to stragglers at 8 PM No badges or registration are required. You may come early. Those interested in seeing the Leonardo exhibit may get discount coupons, contact Rob Stephenson (rstephenson at thetech.org) Parking and transport information can be found at http://www.thetech.org/info/directions/ BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://baypiggies.net/new/plone ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Newbie Nugget Code Coverage by Benjamin Sargeant Note that Tech Museum doors will not allow late-comers after 8:00 PM ..... 7:45 PM to 8:45 PM ................ Scrape the Web: Strategies for programming websites that don't expect it by Asheesh Laroia Note that the meeting ends promptly at 9 PM. ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. Note that the meeting ends promptly at 9 PM. From jim at well.com Tue Jan 6 00:13:06 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:13:06 -0800 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday January 8, 2009: Scrape the Web by Asheesh Laroia Message-ID: <1231197186.7760.346.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday January 8, 2009 NOTE BayPIGgies is NOT meeting at Google this month (or next) but at the Tech Museum on Market Street in San Jose (details below) Tonight's talk is Scrape the Web: Strategies for programming websites that don't expect it by Asheesh Laroia Do you find yourself faced with websites that have data you need to extract? Would your life be simpler if you could programmatically input data into web applications, even those tuned to resist interaction by bots? This talk presents the basics of web scraping and then dives into the details of different methods and where they are most applicable. You'll leave with an understanding of when to apply different tools and learn about a "heavy hammer" for screen scraping used by a project for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Attendees should bring a laptop, if possible, to try the examples and optionally take notes. http://svn.asheesh.org/svn/public/20082009/pycon-proposal.rst Meetings start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. tonight's Newbie Nugget: Code Coverage Basics by Benjamin Sargeant NEW LOCATION FOR JANUARY 8, 2009 The Tech Museum of Innovation 201 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 ROOM: "Large Group Meeting Room", which is on the right as one enters the building from the Park Street entrance. NOTE: doors close to stragglers at 8 PM No badges or registration are required. You may come early. Those interested in seeing the Leonardo exhibit may get discount coupons, contact Rob Stephenson (rstephenson at thetech.org) Parking and transport information can be found at http://www.thetech.org/info/directions/ BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://baypiggies.net/new/plone ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Newbie Nugget Code Coverage by Benjamin Sargeant Note that Tech Museum doors will not allow late-comers after 8:00 PM ..... 7:45 PM to 8:45 PM ................ Scrape the Web: Strategies for programming websites that don't expect it by Asheesh Laroia Note that the meeting ends promptly at 9 PM. ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. Note that the meeting ends promptly at 9 PM. From Sarah at cloudmade.com Thu Jan 8 20:28:25 2009 From: Sarah at cloudmade.com (Sarah Manley) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:28:25 -0800 Subject: Upcoming OpenStreetMap events! Message-ID: Dear All, We are hosting another OSM mapping party on Jan 17th in San Francisco. Details can be found here: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/San_Francisco I hope some of you can make it! Cheers, Sarah Sarah Manley Sarah at cloudmade.com Cell: 631-338-3815 Skype: Sarah_cloudmade Twitter: SarahManley From Sarah at cloudmade.com Fri Jan 9 20:03:26 2009 From: Sarah at cloudmade.com (Sarah Manley) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:03:26 -0800 Subject: Upcoming OpenStreetMap Mapping Party in SF! Message-ID: <7A9ECB1A-D0D5-4667-A5FC-7B757C9EC1A9@cloudmade.com> Hope some of you can join us for another SF mapping party! Sat Jan 17th at the Jewish Community Center of SF http://community.cloudmade.com/events/january/sanfrancisco/opensource Feel free to contact me with questions and suggestions. Cheers, Sarah Sarah Manley Sarah at cloudmade.com Cell: 631-338-3815 Skype: Sarah_cloudmade Twitter: SarahManley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.theapt.org/pipermail/sfobug/attachments/20090109/715b78c8/attachment.html From Sarah at cloudmade.com Thu Jan 29 23:01:42 2009 From: Sarah at cloudmade.com (Sarah Manley) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:01:42 -0800 Subject: Upcoming OpenStreetMap and Cloudmade events Message-ID: <285D74F7-C5CB-46E0-9F67-603C0C7B5DDB@cloudmade.com> Dear All, I just wanted to send a quick notice about upcoming OpenStreetMap and Cloudmade events. The details can be found below. Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions. OSM: Mountain View Mapping Party Saturday Feb 7 and Sunday Feb 8, 11am - 4pm Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 http://www.redrockcoffee.org (650) 967-4473 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mountain_View_Mapping_Party_-_February_2009 CloudMade's Developer Program Launch Preview Thursday February 5th, 6:00pm San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, 1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, California, 94010 RSVP: http://developer.cloudmade.com/event/launch?source=sm_dm_sf&new=true Best, Sarah Sarah Manley Sarah at cloudmade.com Cell: 631-338-3815 Skype: Sarah_cloudmade Twitter: SarahManley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.theapt.org/pipermail/sfobug/attachments/20090129/81a93a9d/attachment.html