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Posts Tagged ‘curl’
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Getting the CSS Validator running as a website
Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
A week or so I wrote about running the W3C CSS Validator on the command-line. Yes, I know I said I didn’t need to run it as a website, but as it turns out the command-line version doesn’t seem to want to validate local files — only files being served from a web-server.
So, [...]
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WikiSlurp: Slurping Data from Wikipedia for Fun and Profit
Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
This last weekend I attended BarCamp London 5, where I talked about WikiSlurp, my technique for accessing the wealth of data held within Wikipedia. I currently use WikiSlurp on both Is Neil Annoyed By and The Ten Word Review as a way to pull in additional information about the things described on individual pages.
These [...]