title: Scrapping of the Google Groups
date: 2014-01-05T21:30:00
categories:
  - Fedora
  - google
  - lock-in
  - email
  - liberation
  - owncloud
tags:
  - computer
---


As a followup to my previous rant_ on the locked-in nature of the Google
Groups, I have created this `Python script`_ for scrapping the messages
from Google webpages.

Thanks to `Sean Hogan`_ for the first inspiration for the script. Any
comments would be welcome via email (I am sure you can find my addresses
somewhere on the Web).

**Update:** Apparently_, scrapping_ is not the same as scraping_. And
although, there are some_, who wouldn’t mind, I am able to do just the
latter.

.. _`Python script`:
    https://gitlab.com/mcepl/gg_scraper
.. _rant:
    /blog/2013/09/19/we-should-stop-even-pretending-google-is-trying-to-do-the-right-thingtm/
.. _`Sean Hogan`:
    /blog/2013/09/19/we-should-stop-even-pretending-google-is-trying-to-do-the-right-thingtm/#comment-133-by-sean-hogan
.. _Apparently:
    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-January/663849.html
.. _scrapping:
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scrapping
.. _scraping:
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scrape
.. _some:
    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-January/663853.html