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eurobrussels.com python screenscraper

Josef Assad - ... or perhaps not - Thu, 2007-11-08 18:18 By joe

Much like unjobs.org, eurobrussels.com is an excellent resource for vacancies in Europe with multilateral organizations and all form of interesting private enterprises.

Unfortunately, the site is still RSS-disabled and the process of looking on the site for new jobs is temrinally inconvenient. So what's a python programmer to do?

Out comes BeautifulSoup and PyRSS2Gen. A quick examination of the source code reveals that the geeks there are good enough netizens to use (relatively) reasonable CSS classes. A little bit of time, and you've got a nice screenscraper for your RSS generator.  read more »

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UNJobs.org Screenscraper and RSS Generator

Josef Assad - ... or perhaps not - Mon, 2007-10-01 10:25 By joe

The UN Jobs site is useful as a compendium of what postings are being opened where, but as an information system it is nigh on useless. There is no way to track what you have seen and what you haven't seen, and no way to tell precisely what is new between now and the last time you visited (the new postings page notwithstanding).

I've written a small screenscraper which pulls down all the postings and converts them to an rss file. I don't know about other feed readers, but liferea can read from a local file. There's a ton of dependencies like BeautifulSoup and PyRSS2Gen, but anyone with a little motivation should be able to get this working.  read more »

pycurl CurlMulti mini-HOWTO

Josef Assad - ... or perhaps not - Sun, 2007-09-30 14:15 By joe

In the course of writing a little python command line RSS engine, I naturally came to a point where I needed to download the RSS feeds to store them and work with them.

My options looked like this:  read more »

Quark Express 6 - MAC OS X

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Freebie Notes Arabic Translations

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