portia

Right now your UI is about 10 times better than the open source Portia UI from scrapinghub, but your also 10x the cost of operating a Portia crawler.

As an example, Portia jumping spiders display very complex hunting behaviors, including trial-and-error learning in novel circumstances.

Scientology Has an iPad App For That · a year ago Thanks Portia for providing the information.

Still the treatment of Portia spiders by itself make the book worthy of a read.

Those with good eyesight are jumping spiders, portia, and a few ground spiders.

Any plans for a gui based web scraper interface similar to portia?

Different species of spiders will respond in different ways, and so the Portia learn to intelligently apply different patterns of plucking to fit the circumstances.

Thinking of smart bugs, check out the portia (aka jumping) spider.

Is data encrypted when using Portia in cloud mode?

There's a Portia connection there too, by the way.

When encountering an unknown type of spider, Portia will try various experimental plucking motions, the successful results of which will be remembered and reused correctly in future attacks.

Here, Portia is a character in the puzzle; why should we trust her any more than we should labels on boxes or (in the set-up of the puzzle) statements on caskets?

Portia spiders are known to spend up to an hour "analyzing" their environment before deciding on a course of action!

The problem is that mjd himself, when discussing "Why don't all logic puzzles fall afoul of this problem", says that the statement > Portia explained to the suitor that of the three statements, at most one was true.

What bothers me about mjd's explanation of "Why doesn't every logic puzzle fall afoul of this problem" is: > > Portia explained to the suitor that of the three statements, at most one was true.

Portia spiders can even transfer hunting behaviors to their progeny (although it's unclear how that happens).

Portia is more interesting because it is an open source scraping GUI - the GUIs tend to be very proprietary.

They might switch to something with different gameplay though, like My Time At Portia.