Couldn't find anything in Smalltalk but that should you give ideas and inspire you or get you started...

https://github.com/search?q=contact+scraping&type=Repositories

I guess we have all that's needed in Pharo : parsers (HTML, XML, PetitParser), Soup & regex !

Yes for markup, I played already quite much with Soup initially at first but then XPath which os far more convenient and direct. PetitParser(2) is also a pure gem. I finally understand it better. Grammar and Parser are interesting but maybe more appropriate for structured/semi/structured texts. Pure text, is nice with tools like those Richard just showed. I continue to play with PetitParser2 today (finishing tutorial…). Cheers, Cédrick

On 2019-03-07 04:52, Cédrick Béler wrote:

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Hi all,

I’ve often got the need to analyse some random unstructured text to discover (structured) information (in email for instance), to extract : - emails - telephone numbers - addresses - events - person names (according to a list of known persons), - etc…

Apple do it in email for instance (strangely, this is not generalized).

So my questions are : - do we have something equivalent in Smalltalk/Pharo ? (I didn’t find) - if not, what strategy would you use ? => I do really stupid text analysis (substrings, finding @, …, parsing according to the text structure when there is… kind of Soup parsing…) => I feel this is a job for PetitParser ? And would be a nice feet to the new GToolkit.

All ideas or suggestions are welcome ;-)

TIA,

Cédrick

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