Hi HN,
I work for OpenCorporates, the team behind this, and we were planning to do a "Show HN" in the next couple of days, once we'd got a few wrinkles sorted out.
In the meantime, I'll be around for a bit and try to answer any questions.
I work for OpenCorporates, the team behind this, and we were planning to do a "Show HN" in the next couple of days, once we'd got a few wrinkles sorted out.
In the meantime, I'll be around for a bit and try to answer any questions.
Furthermore, dedicated crawler isn't needed in many smaller (or more centralised/regulated?) markets where there are only a few players. E.g. in Latvia there are less than 30 credit institutions, and as the published data is freeform, not machine readable (http://fktk.lv/en/market/credit_institutions/banks1/ etc), then simply copy/pasting the info would be much quicker than testing a scraper.
[1]This is not an authoritative list, and I have never read this particular site, but its one of the first on google: http://www.hangthebankers.com/48-suspicious-banking-deaths/