Simon Willison’s Weblog

homebrew. Exciting alternative to MacPorts for compiling software on OS X—homebrew avoids sudo and defines packages as simple Ruby scripts, shared and distributed using Git.

# 21st September 2009, 6:51 pm / git, homebrew, macports, osx, ruby

lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library. I just wish I could get the wretched thing to install on OS X Leopard without resorting to MacPorts.

# 11th December 2008, 9:54 am / ian-bicking, lxml, macports, python, screenscraping