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I haven't used Spidermon yet, but Scrapinghub has a Scrapy plugin called Splash which can be used to render JS pages within a Scrapy spider.

I'm pretty sure Excel can do all of this. I think if all of the data has already been ported to Excel, it would be much easier to figure out how to make Excel do what you want than…

Rosetta Stone

I've used Toggl ( http://www.toggl.com/ ) and Harvest ( http://www.getharvest.com/ ). I like them both, though they are not local apps. But, you can use them on any of the multiple…

I agree that it seems valid. I also think that Google would most definitely use that data if they had it. Google used to show live twitter results in their SERPs; but stopped when …

I think it was Apple 2 as well. This was the first thing I looked for.

I work with ellyagg and I can confirm that he did in fact gain 25 lbs in a month using GOMAD, CrossFit and some additional strength work at the gym. In the same time, I lost about …

Yes, which is what we thought too. But, you can setup a "custom search engine" with some default site (we used www.google.com), then change the settings to that it uses the entire …

Google has told me (and other users of the now deprecated AJAX Search API) to switch to their paid Custom Search API. The new API is missing some features that were in the old API,…

I don't know of a library, but I have seen some sites that offer software to do it. I'd try http://mouseflow.com/ . I haven't used it yet, but it looks cool. I used http://www.craz…

Yes, you can change the amount with ARB -- once you have the subscription id, you can change pretty much anything about that subscription.

In my experience, Titles do matter. Titles matter not only as a main "ranking factor", but also because the Title is most often the link from the search engine result to the webpag…

I use Hacker Newsletter ( http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ ) to catch up if I miss stuff during the week.

You can try reddit -- not the main reddit, but a technical subreddit will usually get you some constructive feedback. For example, if I wrote an app in Python, I could post to the …

I also love Fantasy Football. We play in a rookie keeper league where you can carry over rookie players that you draft into the next year. Looking into those rookies does take some…

My favorite words for stumping everybody are: lynx and eczema. I thought for sure that 'lynx' would get on that list since there is only a "sometimes" vowel and an 'x' in there.

Other services I've seen that seem to not fall into that "smaller players" category: Coremetrics, Webtrends, Unica, OneStat, and Clicky. I've worked with all of these (and some sma…

It is there because Google outlined it in a Patent: http://bit.ly/akczok -- see [0099] I honestly think that they do not really use this signal though, and if they do, it's so far …

It depends on the site and the terms people are searching for. Inbound Links can make a site rank highly for some searches, even when the entire page content is Flash and has no ot…

I've used Ubuntu for about 3 years, and use Firefox/Firebug, Emacs plus the emacs-goodies package. While emacs is a bit long to learn, I find that it's incredibly efficient. I also…

I know a couple of doctors who have said that people come in saying "I have X, I need Y".. they called it "Googleitis". There are some times when they are right, but many times tha…

This post taught me more about troubleshooting a faulting process in Windows than anything I've done in the last year or two.