{"id":28,"date":"2013-07-22T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-07-22T04:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:21:00","slug":"quora-scraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Quora Scraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/\">Quora<\/a>. It&#8217;s a great site and community. But I started getting a bit concerned how much writing I was doing there which was (potentially) disappearing inside their garden and not part of the body of thinking I&#8217;m building up on ThoughtStorms (or even my blogs).<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I discovered Quora has an RSS feed of my answers, so I can save them to my local machine. (At some point I&#8217;ll think about how to integrate them into ThoughtStorms; should I just make a page for each one?) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway here&#8217;s the script (powered by a lot of Python batteries.)<\/p>\n<p>And this turns the files back into a handy HTML page. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Quora. It&#8217;s a great site and community. But I started getting a bit concerned how much writing I was doing there which was (potentially) disappearing inside their garden and not part of the body of thinking I&#8217;m building up on ThoughtStorms (or even my blogs). Fortunately, I discovered Quora has an RSS feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[365,372,394,403,456],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-python","tag-quora","tag-rss","tag-scripted-life","tag-thoughtstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}