Tracking IKS channels for FTA satellite
I wanted to play around with some of my new work the last few days, so i decided to mash up one of my beta projects with a chance to learn the google visualization api.
My beta project was a research project on ruby, Hpricot, and XPath. you can see the minimalist webpage for this project at http://llamabot.com/ and play around with it. It is just a quick and easy way to scrape pages without having to know much of anything about the page structure.
This new mash-up combines the XPath for scraping various IKS channel counts with google’s dynamic data visualization widgets. With the addition of a cron job, the web page is now fully automated. While it currently has very little data, soon the data set will grow and this will become a useful method of determining which systems are better suited for different people.
Check out the results at http://fta.errorok.com/