Scraping Pinterest
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I am new to creating agile tools with google docs and I was wondering if I could get a little help. I am trying to make a Google Doc that will scrape Pinterest. The problem I run into is the importxml reports "oops, looks like we ran into a problem...." and goes on to tell me more about how it ran into a error. I was wondering if someone might know why the importxml formula can't scrape Pinterest.
Here is a link to my Google Doc if that helps:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9sXyLp1ZLsdFcxTVd6THlka09kMXBvNWJfeE1Ucmc
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I just use this one tool to export a site's data to csv and then play with it in excel
http://digitalhighrise.com/how-to-capture-your-pinterest-audience
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