As part of our ongoing efforts at making sense of the Tenders Electronic Daily procurement contracts, I had to get hold of historical exchange rates to convert the values of all the contracts into a comparable form. Professor Werner Antweiler at The University of British Columbia maintains a very impressive, free database of exactly this [...]
… or parts of it anyway.
The European Union is generally up to lots of weird and wonderful things, one of the more esoteric being the “Tenders Electronic Daily” (TED) database. Basically, all public procurement above a certain value has to go through this database so that companies from all over the world have a fair [...]
Need to scrape a website? I have two links for you:
Solvent from the MIT SIMILI project. In combination with Piggy Bank it’s a scraper on it’s own, but I only use for its superb XPath generator. Just activate the sprayer and click on an element you want and Solvent will generate an intelligent XPath expression [...]
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