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===INBIA===
We retrieved the INBIA data as follows:
#Go to http://exchange.inbia.org/network/findacompany/ and search US
#Change to 100 results per page
#Save HTML page of 0-100
#Choose next page, Save HTML page of 100-200
#Sort Z-A
#Save HTML page 418-318
#Choose next page, Save HTML page of 318-218
#Note that we are missing some that start with L and M
#Search US L, Choose page with L as first letter, Save HTML of L
#Search US M, Choose page with M as first letter, Save HTML of M
Then process each of those html files with regular expressions in textpad
*Search .*biobubblekey Replace #
*Search ^[^#].*\n Replace NOTHING
*Search .*href=\" Replace NOTHING
*Search <\/a> Replace NOTHING
*Search \"> Replace \t
Then combine files, throw out duplicates, move columns, sort. This results in a file without headers where the lines are like:
1863 Ventures/Project 500 /?c=companyprofile&UserKey=4794e0a6-3f61-4357-a1cb-513baf00957e
4th Sector Innovations /?c=companyprofile&UserKey=cc47b04e-1c2a-4019-88b3-05d1163a0d6a
712 Innovations /?c=companyprofile&UserKey=531ad600-e11a-4c74-9f37-bace816b9325
AccelerateHER /?c=companyprofile&UserKey=3c05d1c1-91b5-48ae-8ec3-c77765b10c2b
ACTION Innovation Network /?c=companyprofile&UserKey=5ac08dd0-364d-47b2-8de0-a7536a3b4802
We can now build a crawler to call http://exchange.inbia.org/network/findacompany/ with then the URL extension (either encoded or with <nowiki>&</nowiki> replaced with just &), for example: http://exchange.inbia.org/network/findacompany/?c=companyprofile&UserKey=da2dbe35-9afa-4141-9b31-4e2cfd46a5aa Gets the company page for Cambridge Innovation Center.
We can then rip out the contact information, including URL, and the people, using either beautiful soup or regular expressions.
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| Seems to be a lot of data on accelerators and fewer incubators included
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== [[Accelerator_Seed_List_(Data)#Sources | Accelerator Data Sources]] that are Potentially Viable ==
