2015-01-19 15:07 GMT-03:00 Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl>: > Hernán wrote: > >My goal is to search the contents of the Description form field in > SmalltalkHub. > >I don't know if matches the design and idea of Hubcap (really nice > package BTW). > >I wonder if anyone (Torsten?) tried to download all package metadata > first and perform off-line search? > > What I did was take a look at mcx history and try to derive the latest > one, and then use the > Moose mczimporter to derive a list of signatures of (possibly) sent > messages. > The idea was to find out when packages change in a non-compatible way. > > Sorry Stephan, I wasn't clear enough. I want to search over SmalltalkHub projects metadata, not the Monticello metadata.
When you click "Edit infos" in SmalltalkHub you see a web form with a "Description" field. That's the data I want to gather. I know it could be done with web scraping, the question is if someone tried to do it before. Hernán
