Integrating/Developing a framework to extract structured data from web sources with a simple query language.

Some links that might be useful:

• ​http://wiki.github.com/fizx/parsley/
• ​http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/
• PDFminer is a tool to convert pdf docs into text, it is open source ​(Licence). Some hacking in the souce code will is a good option for coding IMPORTING TOOL ​Spreadsheet Importer

The ​Spreadsheet Importer will be a component of this.

But it would also be good to be able to import from the following formats:

• PDF
• HTML (File/URL)
• DOC
• XML (Not matching out data schema)
• RSS
• News feeds
• Ushahidi

Some of these formats will be able to be parsed and imported, others may be unstructured and saved as a "New Feed".
Ideally different templates will be able to be designed (by users) for importing different types of data.