By the way, if you're interested in scraper/crawlers also have a look at 80legs.com crawling SaaS, with some custom code capabilities too.
Or, if python is your bag, there's a scraping lib called scrapy that was opensourced last year that's ok.
On ScraperWiki, they need source control as the environment is actually run on their servers, I'd guess a bespin type implementation, so you put all your code on the wiki, and it can get augmented etc. hence needs SCM. At least, for the moment, it seems they've got plans of releasing their api engine or at least calls to it in which case you'd end up doing the code locally, and can use your own SCM.
Their confusing naming could be explained that their not pitching this at coders, but rather journalists to try and get them to use the vast data resources out on the net.
Or, if python is your bag, there's a scraping lib called scrapy that was opensourced last year that's ok.
On ScraperWiki, they need source control as the environment is actually run on their servers, I'd guess a bespin type implementation, so you put all your code on the wiki, and it can get augmented etc. hence needs SCM. At least, for the moment, it seems they've got plans of releasing their api engine or at least calls to it in which case you'd end up doing the code locally, and can use your own SCM.
Their confusing naming could be explained that their not pitching this at coders, but rather journalists to try and get them to use the vast data resources out on the net.