Using Qri Call 6/17/2019 === **Attendees:** - Rico - b5 **AGENDA** * **News & Updates** * **Featured Qri Projects** * **The Upcoming** * **Peer Corner** --- **News & Updates:** * Patch Releases: 0.8.1, 0.8.2 and a Frontend Release: https://github.com/qri-io/qri/releases/tag/v0.8.1 (b5) * using qri internally as core team. will see more rapid patch releases (because we're relying on the app). * fixes: clean up the experience less on shipping new features, & developing docs & tutorials * bsoup (Kasey) * more 'pythonic' way to parse HTML. not complete, please let us know capabilities exist in bsoup but not compatible w/ Qri. * links to bsoup documentation * JB: Does starlark support python libraries?: Dustin: libraries must be ported to starlark b/c they're not the same. Starlark doesn't support: properties. B5: common pattern emerging - using qri to version the results of work done in external programs. Qri as a sidecar. Upside of doing it in starlark is Qri knows how to self-update. * If website is pure HTML and paresable, you're good. More modern websites you'll need a webscraper (see b5) - does work outside of qri, parses, versions it using qri (not all in a transform). Alternative is puppeteer. Example project: https://gist.github.com/b5/67e4ade3b2325df9478d1dacd09fad97 **Featured Qri Projects:** * Qri on Windows (Jonathan & Dustin) * https://medium.com/@jbutler18/how-to-install-qri-for-windows-83b019c79320 * * 2020 Presidential Candidates Voting Records Dataset (Astro) **The Upcoming:** - Data Jam! (Rico) - let's pick a date (late june (26,27)? early july?) and topic - Voting Records? - Stuart: progressive hacknight (https://progressivehacknight.org/) - JSON feed from Amtrak train map (real time). -CW (https://chriswhong.github.io/amtrak-map/#3.43/36.49/-99.81 / https://gist.github.com/chriswhong/aa4a2911883904310b3c342e76dd6342) - http://nathan9.github.io/nycbusperformance/ **Peer Corner:** Air issues, questions, ideas, bugs, etc. * Qri Connect * Strict: true (fix coming) * ctrl+S saves my webpage, not my script (keyboard shortcuts) * --- **Resources**