OpenRefine April 2020 review

April was a busy month for the OpenRefine community with new reconciliation services and plugin updates! Do not forget to subscribe to our newsletter to get our monthly update right in your mailbox. 

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OpenRefine March 2020 review

The latest edition of the OpenRefine review is ready. Through March the community published a LOT of new video tutorials in six languages! 

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Concatenate Column in OpenRefine 3.0 and 3.3

We all know the pain of merging different columns in OpenRefine when you have null values. Before version 3.0, it required writing a complex GREL expression or managing multiple filters to ensure we are not losing any data. 

Those shortcomings have been addressed in the latest version! 

Starting OpenRefine 3.0, we have the coalesce() function:  which natively handles the null correctly. 

But evermore importantly, OpenRefine 3.3 introduced a user interface that offers tons of flexibility, including defining how you want to concatenate one or multiple columns together. 

I recorded a quick video demonstration: 

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Solving Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 with ParseHub Agent

ParseHub is a great point and click web scraping software. While projects run on ParseHub servers, you can connect with third party proxies like BrightData or captcha resolution service like 2Captcha. 

In this tutorial, we will show you how to bypass Google Recaptcha v2 test page with ParseHub Agent and 2Captcha service. You will need to create an account with 2Captcha and have an API key to complete this tutorial. 

Don't hesitate to contact us if you want to access the ParseHub project, have questions or need help to implement web scraping projects.

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OpenRefine February 2020 Review

The February edition of our OpenRefine news rounds-up is ready. For this month, we did some digging on YouTube for the best OpenRefine video tutorial in your language.

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OpenRefine January 2020 Review

With the new year, we decided to start a monthly review of what happened in the OpenRefine community.  We listed below a summary of what happened in December 2019 and January 2020. Let us know if we missed something.

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How to use Columnize by Key/Value

Based on the Wordpress export file in XML format shared by Adam K on the user mailing list the column item - wp:postmeta - wp:meta_key and item - wp:postmeta - wp:meta_value store data in a key:value format. The column meta_key indicates the value type and the column meta_value store the field value.

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