wildcard
wildcard copied to clipboard
geoffreylitt
A browser extension for customizing web apps with a spreadsheet view
site adapter for https://eecs.scripts.mit.edu/eduportal/who_is_teaching_what/F/2020/ - remove mode column to make compatible with previous semesters site adapter for https://firehose.guide/ - in the future, would like to parse full.js / javascript variable...
I just [made an adapter for a books site](https://github.com/geoffreylitt/wildcard/commit/996d492de5dde73636c6e4bf52b311b1849059ce), took me about 10 minutes as someone extremely familiar with the quirks of the system and with web scraping in general....
Dev builds are getting very slow. Don't know yet where the bottlenecks are... Perhaps try switching from rollup to [snowpack](https://www.snowpack.dev/posts/2020-05-26-snowpack-2-0-release/)?
There should be ways to connect Wildcard with other computing tools to view/edit the table. Export to CSV is obvious but boring; that's just web scraping. More interesting: create a...
Tagging @TylerMillis as the original author. - first commit: adds main_frame and xmlhttprequest scopes. Without it, some pages (e.g. https://hn.algolia.com) aren't loading at all. I haven't managed to figure out...
At the moment, the applicable pages are hardcoded in the adapter, so for example, the [HN adapter](https://github.com/geoffreylitt/wildcard/blob/8e31ceddd16e996268089b4fe36783aa011a5c7e/src/site_adapters/hackerNews.ts#L12-L14) can't handle the ["show new"](https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew) page and few other. I'm sure it would...
Currently, if something fails (e.g. error inside a scraper), the error is logged in the console, but from the user's perspective the extension just doesn't work, e.g. wildcard table might...
I just had a nice chat with David Karger about Wildcard at the HCI research feedback lunch. He made a bunch of useful points about things to expand on in...
Metadata
Owner
Metadata
A browser extension for customizing web apps with a spreadsheet view