computer/scrapping-of-Google-groups.rst


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Scrapping of the Google Groups
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:date: 2014-01-05T21:30:00
:category: computer
:tags: Fedora, google, lock-in, email, liberation, OwnCloud


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:
    {filename}stop-pretending-google.rst
.. _`Sean Hogan`:
    http://disq.us/p/1q35ki2
.. _Apparently:
    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-January/814162.html
.. _scrapping:
    http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scrapping
.. _scraping:
    http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scrape
.. _some:
    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-January/814295.html