Author Archives: Fotis Kokkoras

About Fotis Kokkoras

I am an Assist. Professor @ Digital System Dep., University of Thessaly, Greece

DEiXTo: A web data extraction suite (the missing paper!)

After almost 7 years of success stories, we finally wrote a paper about DEiXTo. The paper was accepted for publication in the 6th Balkan Conference in Informatics. From now on, if you want to reference DEiXTo in your thesis, project … Continue reading

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Selenium: a web browser automation companion for DEiXTo

Selenium is a suite of free software tools aiming at web browser automation. Its  functionality-rich client API can be used to launch browser instances (Firefox processes) and simulate almost everything a user could do on a web page. However, as … Continue reading

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PhantomJS and DEiXTo

Recently we experimented with PhantomJS, a headless WebKit browser which can serve a wide variety of purposes such as web browser automation, site scraping, website testing, SVG rendering and network monitoring. It’s a very interesting tool that could be used … Continue reading

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DEiXTo & the Global Cancer Collaboratory project!

We are glad to announce that DEiXTo will be used by the Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) in their Global Cancer Collaboratory project. This project aims at aggregating information from cancer center web sites into some central VIVO hubs, in order … Continue reading

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Hello (scraping) world (again)!

Here we are! We moved our main DEiXTo site on a WordPress platform, aiming at organizing here all DEiXTo material. DEiXTo Wiki and probably DEiXTo Blog will be integrated here soon, as well. We also plan to allow other users … Continue reading

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