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:I have read your criticism, and looked at the introduction of the definition of web scraping [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping here]. It seems we disagree on the size of example appropriate to R.C. but not really on what web scraping is. If you have a larger example then the central idea of extracting data from a live web page may be lost in the details of how the data is extracted from HTML, or what is done subsequently with that data. A lot of the tasks on R.C. are small and I thought this would fit that mould. |
:I have read your criticism, and looked at the introduction of the definition of web scraping [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping here]. It seems we disagree on the size of example appropriate to R.C. but not really on what web scraping is. If you have a larger example then the central idea of extracting data from a live web page may be lost in the details of how the data is extracted from HTML, or what is done subsequently with that data. A lot of the tasks on R.C. are small and I thought this would fit that mould. |
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:You could always add a separate task involving extracting data from HTML files? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 12:56, 9 September 2008 (UTC) |
:You could always add a separate task involving extracting data from HTML files? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 12:56, 9 September 2008 (UTC) |
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:: Whatever the task calls for, It's perfectly acceptable to break a particular language's code example out into a separate page (e.g. [[Web Scraping/x86 Macro Assembler]]) if the code size gets too large. If the task itself calls for something beyond a function or two, the task falls under a "project" scope as in [[RCBF]] and [[RCSNUSP]], where the task itself becomes a category, and each example gets its own page there. |
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:: If the task's intent is tightly scoped, but the task's examples grow too far, then consider breaking up the task into multiple pieces that each illustrate some different function. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 05:59, 10 September 2008 (UTC) |
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