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quotesondesign.com scraping quotes with YQL!
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| A scrape from quotesondesign.com to harvest some nice quotes using Yahoo Query Language (YQL!) | |
| QUERY: | |
| select * from html where url="http://quotesondesign.com/" and | |
| xpath='//*[@id="quote-content"]/p/text()[1]' | |
| YQL Query URL: | |
| https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fquotesondesign.com%2F%22%20and%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20xpath%3D'%2F%2F*%5B%40id%3D%22quote-content%22%5D'&diagnostics=true | |
| YQL Query URL simple & json: | |
| https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fquotesondesign.com%2F%22%20and%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20xpath%3D%27%2F%2F*%5B%40id%3D%22quote-content%22%5D%27&diagnostics=false&format=json |
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