I've set the 'redirect javascript console to stdout' option for piggybank,
so any javascript messages should be in the firefox console output (if I
understand that option right). In any case, I don't remember seeing any
javascript errors before I did that, but if you like, I can run the scraper
again and mail you the javascript output to you separately...
-- arvind
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Huynh [mailto:dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:38 PM
> To: general_at_simile.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Solvent/piggy-bank weirdness
>
> Arvind,
>
> Could you check the JavaScript console? I suspect some useful error
messages are in there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> Arvind Venkataramani wrote:
>
> >I've been trying to create a screen scraper for CiteULike (which very
> >inconsistently includes RSS feeds in its pages). The published scraper
> >is
> >here:
> >
> >Metadata:
> >http://www.sensemaya.org/screen-scrapers/citeulike/basic/single.n3
> >
> >JS: http://www.sensemaya.org/screen-scrapers/citeulike/basic/single.js
> >
> >The problem I'm having is that the code runs fine in solvent - a sample
> >results file is attached, and it parses just fine in Piggy-Bank.
> >However, the exact same code, when saved to the piggy bank, and
> >activated, consistently returns a 'No typed data found' error. If the
> >result of the script is identical in both cases, why does the Solvent
> >run produce output that Piggy-Bank manages to process, while the
> >installed screen-scraper doesn't? I'd really appreciate any
thoughts/suggestions on this..
> >
> >Alternatively, if there's a way to load the contents of an RSS feed
> >into Piggy-Bank through a screen-scraper, it would be awesome. In
> >connection with which I must state that Piggy-Bank doesn't seem to
> >understand the RSS feeds at CiteULike when loaded in the browser (No
> >data coin for, for instance,
> >http://www.citeulike.org/rss/author/Semenov ). If the RSS is linked
> >through the HEAD of the webpage, the coin turns up as expected. If
> >there's someway to do that, I'd love to hear about it (I'm a javascript
> >newbie)
> >
> >I have the feeling these two issues might have something to do with
> >each other, but I'm no expert.
> >
> >Debugging info:
> >
> >Firefox: 1.0.7
> >OS: Windows XP with SP2
> >Java: Sun JRE 1.5.0_04
> >Piggy Bank: 2.1.1
> >Solvent: 1.0.0
> >
> >Console & java output (from Firefox load to time of error):
> >ff-console-output.txt & java-console-output.txt (attached).
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >
Received on Thu Dec 01 2005 - 02:38:44 EST