[Tutor] screen scraping web-based email (Alan Gauld)

[Kent Johnson]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
> "Switanek, Nick" <nswitanek at stanford.edu> wrote
> 
>> Please let us know when you have a draft of your tutorial on Beautiful
>> Soup and such. I'd be eager to have a look!
> 
> Here is the current draft, the concepts bits are all there  (nothing
> on Beautiful Soup as yet) but the example is giving me some headaches
> so it could change significantly over the next weeks. But early feedback
> is always welcome!

FWIW most real-world HTML parsers (including Beautiful Soup) seem to be 
based directly on SMTPlib, not htmllib or HTMLParser.

On a lawyerly note, I think your Google example violates Google's terms 
of service which prohibits any automated access.
http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

Kent