That official video appears to indicate portia or scrapy is a choice made right after the Project set up button is clicked. But when I replicate that I see no choice to use portia.
So I am all a bit befuddled and confused.
I am not a developer and hence my interest in the gui promise of portia.
Any help appreciated at getting me rolling with hosted portia.
Best wishes
Mick
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nestor posted
over 6 years ago
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Portia is no longer available as a hosted version for accounts created after August 20th, 2018.
Thanks for noticing the Github mention, I'll remove it.
"Portia is a tool that allows you to visually scrape websites without any programming knowledge required"
But then to actually understand install instructions one really needs to be a developer not the "average non technical bloke" portia appeared designed to help. :)
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nestorposted
over 6 years ago
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Most of the Portia articles have a note indicating such, I'll go through the others within our domain and check if there's any mention of them and add the note.
Hi
I am brand new here having arrived via the portia github page which advertised a hosted version of portia.
I have now registered an account here but can't figure out how to access anything to do with the hosted version of portia.
I have searched within support but can't find any answer.
I even saw a video on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtZPVUmu3OA
That official video appears to indicate portia or scrapy is a choice made right after the Project set up button is clicked. But when I replicate that I see no choice to use portia.
So I am all a bit befuddled and confused.
I am not a developer and hence my interest in the gui promise of portia.
Any help appreciated at getting me rolling with hosted portia.
Best wishes
Mick
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nestor posted over 6 years ago Admin Best Answer
Portia is no longer available as a hosted version for accounts created after August 20th, 2018.
Thanks for noticing the Github mention, I'll remove it.
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Martin Cleaver posted almost 6 years ago
https://portia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html still not updated.
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puntermick posted over 6 years ago
Seems like pure genius.
"Portia is a tool that allows you to visually scrape websites without any programming knowledge required"
But then to actually understand install instructions one really needs to be a developer not the "average non technical bloke" portia appeared designed to help. :)
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nestor posted over 6 years ago Admin
Most of the Portia articles have a note indicating such, I'll go through the others within our domain and check if there's any mention of them and add the note.
I don't think it's hosted anywhere else, but you can launch and host your own instance following the installation guide: https://portia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html
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puntermick posted over 6 years ago
it is not just on github..lots of other spots too portia is mentioned
eg just one of many = https://support.scrapinghub.com/support/solutions/articles/22000200405-which-services-are-available-on-scrapy-cloud-
And do you now offer any alternate GUI interface style thing to replace the removed portia?
And if portia hosted is no longer available here is it available hosted anywhere else?
Cheers
Mick
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nestor posted over 6 years ago Admin Answer
Portia is no longer available as a hosted version for accounts created after August 20th, 2018.
Thanks for noticing the Github mention, I'll remove it.
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