Welcome

Alpha Phase

Scrapmetl is currently in Alpha Phase. If you are interested in this project and would like to participate, you may request an invite by signing up.

What is this all about?

Scrapmetl allows you to extract, mix, and connect information from around the web in a new way. The purpose is to facilitate connections between applications, tools, and robots across the old web, the current web, the rapidly-emerging internet of things, and the semantic web.

Use Scrapmetl to ...

• Extract the prices of products, real estate properties, stocks and financial instruments, and indexes
• Extract temperatures, energy consumption, wind speed and direction, elevation, and other environmental data
• Extract headlines, labels, names, bits and pieces of text, or even the US department of homeland security's current threat level
• Extract transit schedules, flight data, prediction market leaderboards, lottery numbers, puzzle solutions, or count the number of wikipedia articles in a given language.
• Combine your scraps into scrapmetl equations - re-interpret data create your own custom strings, indexes, averages, summations using a library of functions and scrapmetl $variables
• Extract numerical conversion rates such as feet to meters, currency exchange rates, volumes and other units and incorporate these into scrapmetl equations as scrapmetl $variables
• Syndicate or route your scraps in a multitude of output formats (pure text, XML, RSS, EEML, JSON, Javascript (includes renderer), RDF/OWL, CSV, HTML, etc) to other aggregators, applications, scripts, robots, and data patch bays like Pachube.
• Bundle your scraps into groups and create structures or sets of scraps (these syndicate in the above formats like EEML and RSS as well)
• Include/Embed scraps on your website or blog with our handy drop-in script
• Extract dimensional, tabular, or sets of data from websites and perform operations or transformations
• Use our Mozilla Ubiquity command to create scraps from Ubiquity, or drop scraps into web pages/forms/inputs as you work.
• Calculate scrap equations instantly from Mozilla Ubiquity, access your scrapmetl $variables
• Extract data from your aging websites that are powered by old scripts or code for which you lack proper time/budget/access to update.