There is an appendix to the paper describing how to install and run the author's script. I'd like to take a look at the source, but can't find an actual link to the code. Am I overlooking something?
2. click on the link to "We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank's Web Site"
3. click on the "Data & Analysis" tab
4. scroll to the bottom and there are download links to harvester_parameters.py, harvester.py and unloader.py
BUT i can't seem to actually download them, as there is some redirect that fails :( i tried creating an account on that site as well. anyone else have any luck?
I got the redirect error too when I tried to download _all_ files. However when I deselected all and just checked the readme, csv data, and python scripts, it worked just fine.
It's pretty typical to find papers written about a piece of software or a software technique with impressive claims and the software is totally unavailable to the larger academic community (neither in binaries or source).