gocurcon: Google Currency Converter Scrapper
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:17 pm
Hi all,
I wanted to share a tiny script which allows me to query google/finance/converter from the CLI.
It's not much of a scrapper really, but I couldn't come up with a better word to describe it. It does scrap! Really! :P
Check it here:
https://github.com/conan-lugmen/newlisp-webscraps
I have two questions regarding my code:
1. Why unify requires uppercase tokens to be able to create symbols with bind? Or maybe my question is this one: Am I correctly using bind/unify? Is that the intended use?
2. I put a check to consider a get-url not giving back a proper answer. However on some runs I've noticed I get nil results like if my check was passed by. What am I doing wrong there?
I wanted to share a tiny script which allows me to query google/finance/converter from the CLI.
It's not much of a scrapper really, but I couldn't come up with a better word to describe it. It does scrap! Really! :P
Check it here:
https://github.com/conan-lugmen/newlisp-webscraps
I have two questions regarding my code:
1. Why unify requires uppercase tokens to be able to create symbols with bind? Or maybe my question is this one: Am I correctly using bind/unify? Is that the intended use?
2. I put a check to consider a get-url not giving back a proper answer. However on some runs I've noticed I get nil results like if my check was passed by. What am I doing wrong there?