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* [babel] ob-web
@ 2010-12-17 15:52 Sébastien Vauban
  2010-12-17 16:23 ` Erik Iverson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sébastien Vauban @ 2010-12-17 15:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ

Hi Eric, Dan & Co,

A dream here: would we have an ob-web package, we could have easy block codes
for fetching some info from Web pages, possibly by giving as parameters 2
delimiters (strings or regexps), and re-arranging it into tables when it fits.

Use cases: statistics from Google Analytics, prices for flights, etc.

A potentiel show-stopper is, I guess, the fact that some (more and more) pages
are accessible via HTTPS, like the Google Analytics ones.

Is all of this do-able somehow: already, nearly, could be or never ever?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban


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• * Re: [babel] ob-web
    2010-12-17 15:52 [babel] ob-web Sébastien Vauban
  @ 2010-12-17 16:23 ` Erik Iverson
    2010-12-18 17:26   ` Srinivas
    0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
  From: Erik Iverson @ 2010-12-17 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Sébastien Vauban; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  Sebastien,
  
  This is probably pretty simple to do with a number of org-mode
  supported languages.  Since I know R best, I can recommend the
  RCurl package (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/) for doing exactly
  as you describe.
  
  I'll look into an R implementation of this when I get some
  time over break in the next couple weeks.
  
  There are doubtless other solutions!
  
  --Erik
  
  Sébastien Vauban wrote:
  > Hi Eric, Dan & Co,
  > 
  > A dream here: would we have an ob-web package, we could have easy block codes
  > for fetching some info from Web pages, possibly by giving as parameters 2
  > delimiters (strings or regexps), and re-arranging it into tables when it fits.
  > 
  > Use cases: statistics from Google Analytics, prices for flights, etc.
  > 
  > A potentiel show-stopper is, I guess, the fact that some (more and more) pages
  > are accessible via HTTPS, like the Google Analytics ones.
  > 
  > Is all of this do-able somehow: already, nearly, could be or never ever?
  > 
  > Best regards,
  >   Seb
  > 
  
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• • * Re: [babel] ob-web
      2010-12-17 16:23 ` Erik Iverson
    @ 2010-12-18 17:26   ` Srinivas
      2010-12-18 18:13     ` REBOL support Was: " Eric Schulte
      0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
    From: Srinivas @ 2010-12-18 17:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: emacs-orgmode
    
    I don't know if anyone in this community has heard of REBOL (http://
    www.rebol.com). 
    
    REBOL seems ideally suited for such scripting tasks. For example, the page 
    (http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html) lists a number of one liners that show 
    the potential.
    
    Here is a oneliner (#6 from the oneliners.html) to Save web page text to a file:
    
    remove-each tag page: load/markup http://www.rebol.com [tag? tag] write 
    %page.txt page
    
    
    REBOL is cross platform and is under 1MB. Having support for REBOL in Babel may 
    be useful. 
    
    Disclaimer: I have no connection to REBOL's development. I have used it as a 
    portable solution for producing HTML documentation from plain text (Makedoc - 
    http://www.rebol.net/docs/makedoc/fastmd.html).
    
    - Srinivas 
    
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  • • * Re: REBOL support Was: Re: [babel] ob-web
        2010-12-18 17:26   ` Srinivas
      @ 2010-12-18 18:13     ` Eric Schulte
        0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
      From: Eric Schulte @ 2010-12-18 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
        To: Srinivas; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
      
      I just heard about REBOL recently as it was mentioned as a "good new
      language to learn" at the "Future of Programming Languages" [1] talk at
      Strange Loop.
      
      I am happy to help anyone who would like to add Babel support for REBOL.
      The existing ob-*.el language files should serve as a good guide.  My
      only request for anyone looking to implement such support is that they
      be willing to sign the FSF copyright assignment (see [2]).
      
      Cheers -- Eric
      
      Srinivas <sp_us@yahoo.com> writes:
      
      > I don't know if anyone in this community has heard of REBOL (http://
      > www.rebol.com). 
      >
      > REBOL seems ideally suited for such scripting tasks. For example, the page 
      > (http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html) lists a number of one liners that show 
      > the potential.
      >
      > Here is a oneliner (#6 from the oneliners.html) to Save web page text to a file:
      >
      > remove-each tag page: load/markup http://www.rebol.com [tag? tag] write 
      > %page.txt page
      >
      >
      > REBOL is cross platform and is under 1MB. Having support for REBOL in Babel may 
      > be useful. 
      >
      > Disclaimer: I have no connection to REBOL's development. I have used it as a 
      > portable solution for producing HTML documentation from plain text (Makedoc - 
      > http://www.rebol.net/docs/makedoc/fastmd.html).
      >
      > - Srinivas 
      >
      >
      >
      >
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      Footnotes: 
      [1]  http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Languages
      
      [2]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.php#sec-2
      
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