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16th October 2008 - Link Blog

Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets. I hadn’t played with =importHTML in Google spreadsheets, which lets you suck in data from an HTML table or list somewhere on the web. This tutorial takes it further, bringing Wikipedia, Yahoo! Pipes and KML in to the mix.

Posted 16th October 2008 at 2:37 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 16th October 2008.

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