http://projects.metafilter.com/1608/Hurf-Durf-Data-Eater/ Comments on MetaFilter Projects post Hurf Durf Data Eater Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:27:46 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:27:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://projects.metafilter.com/1608/Hurf-Durf-Data-Eater The <a href='http://stuff.metafilter.com/infodump/'>infodump</a> is nice and all, but what the world really needs is a script to download the dump automatically and put it into a structured DB. This is meant to be a tool to get the boring stuff out of the way of more awesome researching.. Dynamic graphs! Fast queries! Pants! Flash files with singing hamsters! On re-run the script doesn't download files that haven't been changed, nor does it re-insert most data into the database. cron lovers rejoice. Favorites not supported yet (lazy lazy). This is mainly for xnix. Some of the system calls may need de-idiotizing (replacing). Enjoy!<br /><br />does anyone read the posts down here?<br /><br />Happy Birthday! post:projects.metafilter.com,2008:site.1608 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:46:23 -0800 xorry http://projects.metafilter.com/1608/Hurf-Durf-Data-Eater#387 Excellent. Pants! comment:projects.metafilter.com,2008:site.1608-387 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:27:46 -0800 Pants! http://projects.metafilter.com/1608/Hurf-Durf-Data-Eater#405 Ooh! Will check this out. Yay for data wrangling! comment:projects.metafilter.com,2008:site.1608-405 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:12:24 -0800 cortex http://projects.metafilter.com/1608/Hurf-Durf-Data-Eater#406 I didn't realize it was for *us* - I'm constantly amazed at the awesomeness that gets done in the name of mefi. comment:projects.metafilter.com,2008:site.1608-406 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:01:51 -0800 acro