Items tagged projects, gitscraping in 2020

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Datasette Weekly: Datasette 0.50, git scraping, extracting columns (via) The first edition of the new Datasette Weekly newsletter—covering Datasette 0.50, Git scraping, extracting columns with sqlite-utils and featuring datasette-graphql as the first “plugin of the week” # 10th October 2020, 9 pm

Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository

Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it.

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6:27 pm / 9th October 2020 / git, github, projects, scraping, githubactions, gitscraping

Weeknotes: datasette-auth-passwords, a Datasette logo and a whole lot more

All sorts of project updates this week.

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3:41 am / 17th July 2020 / design, passwords, projects, datasette, weeknotes, covid19, gitscraping

Weeknotes: Archiving coronavirus.data.gov.uk, custom pages and directory configuration in Datasette, photos-to-sqlite

I mainly made progress on three projects this week: Datasette, photos-to-sqlite and a cleaner way of archiving data to a git repository.

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7:41 pm / 29th April 2020 / git, http, matthewsomerville, photos, projects, datasette, weeknotes, covid19, gitscraping

Tracking FARA by deploying a data API using GitHub Actions and Cloud Run

I’m using the combination of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Run to retrieve data from the U.S. Department of Justice FARA website and deploy it as a queryable API using Datasette.

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7:51 am / 21st January 2020 / continuousdeployment, continuousintegration, datajournalism, github, projects, datasette, cloudrun, githubactions, gitscraping

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