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I posted a few bookmarklets to allow you to search even quicker than before. Let me know if you have any requests!

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Status Report: ChaCha Scraping Spreadsheet

Good progress on the spreadsheet, methinks. Here's the current checklist of what I've done and what I plan to do before releasing:

  • The actual web scraping macro
  • Password log-on given password in worksheet
  • Data backup onto a specific sheet
  • Simple analytics (total questions, average time, etc)
  • Buttons to start the process

I'm happy with the progress. At this rate, I think I should be able to post the first beta version up by Saturday. I hope so!

And for you coders... I know there's going to be TONS of useless /repetitive coding in my project. I don't even know what half these functions do.... In the last few days, its just been searching for already-written code on the internet, and disecting it for this purpose.

I have a feeling that the spreadsheet isn't going to work for everyone, and that I'm going to have to apologize because I won't be able to troubleshoot/debug.

In the meantime, can anybody help me think of a name for this project? =)

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