[uf-discuss] dapper APIs for microformats search

[Sebastian Küpers]

know what? accidental I just had a chat with Jon Aizen from Dapper and
I explained microformats to him, because he had not heard of them,
yet!

(allways a surprise to me, if somebody hasn't hear of them at all)

It would be very easy for him to use the field and group names, you
can define and nest within Dapper by yourself, for the class names of
the html output of dapper.

Tatatataaaaaa - there you are: Than everybody could create a
microformated html output of every singel website - that would be
great, wouldn't it?

I am only waiting for a feasibilty check from his site - but this
can't be rocketscience for him, I think ...

... so I am excited ... I will keep you informed ;)

On 8/23/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah. And then the limitations of my kode-foo started to show.
>
> Ok, I'll take your word for it.
>
> The moment I can drag and drop data from one site to another using
> Dapper, I'll be happy.
>
> Does Dapper take the place of a Greasemonkey script of could you use
> Dapper to normalize data across any site -- so effectively, those
> holdouts who aren't using microformats could be rewritten with Dapper
> to offer microformatted content so that extensions like Tails would
> work even if they're not natively using microformats?
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 8/23/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Oh - I havn't read you email thorough enough,
> >
> > what you can do with them ... the easiest example ist to build a RSS
> > feed with the dapp to watch searches. It's nearly the same now, as the
> > watchlist oder the "Pubsub" Modell. You use the Technorati Search to
> > Subcribe to a Keyword for a special Microformat. In this case hCard or
> > hReview.
> >
> > But you could also build your own Microformats Search on your Blog and
> > access the search results by XML.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > On 8/23/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > I am surprised, that you don't have heard of Dapper?
> > > You can easily bild a API for every Webpage you want with Dapper.
> > >
> > > You just give Dapper a few example pages and than you start defining
> > > with a special editor, which "blocks" on a page a what kind of content
> > > and dapper tries to learn and understand this.
> > >
> > > Than Dapper will create a API around the site and offers you the
> > > interfaces, as you see it in my cases.
> > >
> > > Great isn't it ;) So if any website thinks, it could lookup
> > > information of his users ... dapper is the revolution :))
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Sebastian
> > >
> > > On 8/23/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > This seems like a great use of the Dapper technology but I can't
> > > > figure out what to do with your Dapps... What can I do with them? ;)
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
> > > > On 8/22/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > hey folks,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've just set up two APIs with Dapper for Technorati's Microformats
> > > > > hCard and hReview searches.
> > > > > So now you can track the latest "Harry Potter" hReviews with RSS for example :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Here my blog article about it:
> > > > > http://pixelsebi.com/2006-08-23/dapper-apis-for-microformats-search/
> > > > >
> > > > > Feedback wanted!
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Sebastian
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